Fraternity

When I was very young. I thought that everybody should have the same income. The principle is not wrong, but I realized much later that communism is not that all men are created equal, it is the fraternity of men. The problem with XX century is precisely that the revolutionaris – with the exception of Lenin, but he died too soon – mistook the two and tried to realize equality,  not fraternity. Since the place where perfect equality is thoroughly realized is neither the family, nor the community, but the troop, where everybody is equally subjected to an impersonal power (iultimately danger of death), this explains why many communists have loved so much military organization. 

When it appeared that all this didn’t work, the majority believed that the military discipline was too hard, and it had to be softened, with a socialdemocratic astray that evenutally ended in the collapse of the Soviet Union, on the other side it was thought that there was not enough discipline, and that it was necessary to motivate people with the thrill of fight, leading to one or the other form of permament revolution. It was an easy play for capitalsim to show his "superiority".