How on Earth does having taxes pay for healthcare advocate violence? You're right, universal healthcare only fits half the definition of free. It costs something but you don't have to make a payment. I will no longer make the mistake of calling it free.

""labor" is going to become insanely cheap and abundant due to the proliferation of robots/machines" - Mr. Khan

This is sheer nonsense. See von Mises:

"Our world is different. Labor is more scarce than material factors of production... there are material factors of production which remain unused because the labor required is needed for the satisfaction of more urgent needs. In our world there is no abundance, but a shortage of manpower, and there are unused material factors of production, i.e. land, mineral deposits, and even plants and equipment."

Your post summarizes my thoughts as well, especially the bolded 

Rather than the labor theory of value I adhere to the:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

and therefore logically support free-market "capitalism" rather than state capitalism/corporatism/fascism and/or socialism/centrally-planned economies. 

"How on Earth does having taxes pay for healthcare advocate violence?" - BraveNewWorld

How do you propose to collect taxes from others? Send them a letter asking nicely?

I don't like the idea at all. And no religion allowed makes it worse.

the idea of communism is great it was just fucked up in execution by people that didnt even believe in communism (otherwhise they could not be rich while at the same time other people are not)


Same with National Socialism. The idea is good but when you hurt others instead of taking care of your own kind of people the execution is also fucked up and has nothing to do with the original idea..

Democracy is also fucked up as it is right now because in no way are people in control. Its more like DEMO in technology e.g. Techdemo. Its just a demonstration you have no real control at all.
I mean since when can my employees (government) decide that they get a raise in pay? Hell I should decide how muich they get.
They are in control of everything and abuse the system and changed it so much that it has nothing more to do with the original idea of a democracy.

As far as I know there was not a single time where a countries government was not corrupt and abused the system to profit. Governments are a joke (a bad one)

It doesn't really matter if you're not sure if you're a communist or not, just believe what you believe.

That's like a Christian saying "I'm not Catholic or a Lutheran, but I believe in Jesus. Am I a Christian or not?"

"I don't think the labour theory of value holds water." - Samuel R Smith

Yes, it's been discredited for a long time.

"central planning of any kind runs into the "knowledge problem" (do we build a factory in location X or Y? Does the factory produce widget A or B? To produce the widget, do we employ means of production R or G? - This is why "attempted communist" countries always run into shortages)"

Yep, AFAIK that's called the "economic calculation problem".

"Finally, the [communist] views on property rights do not correspond to typical human nature"

Yes, communism cannot be justified, because in order to argue for it one needs to be able to argue in the first place. In arguing, one must employ their own bodies (e.g. mouths or fingers) and property (e.g. keyboards) while excluding others' control over these material things. The very act of arguing presupposes "argumentation ethics" and demonstrates that the communist supports ownership over his own body and property, rather than those bering owned by the community. This is a performative contradiction.

communism is responsible for almost 100 million deaths through executions, famine, deaths resulting from deportations, physical confinement, or through forced labor

reminds me of those "journalists" blaming video games when reporting on serial killers