What are your thoughts on Communism?
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Millions killed in Siberia and purges during Stalin's reign. Millions killed by Mao in China.  Hundreds of thousands killed by Pol Pot.\n\nA system that will NEVER work because it denies human nature's need for incentives.  \n\nKarl ignored all of history when he believed that man is perfectable.  He ignored once a person has power they will NEVER give it up, thus government doesn't fade away.  Karl said that for revolution bloodshed was a necessity.  Any system that demands blood to work can't be a good system.\n\nIf government did fade away into nothing you create a vaccume. Natue abhores a vaccume as can be seen in what happened after WWI when Germany was took the brunt of the blame for the war.  Inflation was so bad it took a wheelbarrow of Deuchemarchs to buy a loaf of bread.  This left an opening for the National Socialists to take over, leaving in their wake six million Jews dead.\n\nAny form of socialism never has worked and never will without an influx of capital.  Even Marx wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for Inglas dad funding him.
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Communism is just a government format, that leads by council. It grew out of the Socialist movement sparked by Carl Marx. There are a number of books on the subject, try The Manifesto. By the way, both of these were ideas that looked real good on paper, but never translated well into reality. Human nature is it's biggest problem.
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You should read Karl Marx's book.  I read it in 9th grade, and was supprised by how differently it was portrayed.  The idea of communism in it's simplest is perfect.  Every one has food, clothing, and more than enough to thrive.  Communism would be the perfect government if we could find a ruler who wasn't self absorbed and greedy.  Unfortunately, that's not how most humans function.  (In enland, with the Monarch, Parliment was established to make sure that the King/ Queen wasn't abusing his/her powers, and I bet something similar would function well in a Communist community).  Communisim is only condsidered bad or evil because dictators in the past have proven to be bad or evil.
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Communists are cool because they make every shmuck as miserable as the next schmuck :).  And by the way, communism has never reached the strides Capitalism has in terms of wealth and common good.
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another short summary:\ncapitalism and democracy good, communism bad
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Realize that there are several strains of communism.\n\nIn pure communism, everyone shares everything. The cons are:\n\n1.) A communal farm simply does not produce as much as a modern privatized farm - which several times lead to starvation in the USSR and China.\n2.) Private industries have incentive to spend money on research and development - they can expect to get a profit. Inventors have incentive to spend money and time on their ideas, because they get a profit. In communism, since you can't get a profit, what's the incentive?\n3.) An old joke in the Soviet Union was "As long as they pretend to pay us, we'll pretend to work." A communist society essentially provides the same level of goods to everyone - which typically means not all that much. \n4.) Communism requires an enemy. The entire purpose of communism is to take things away from capitalists. Once you've done that, you've basically created a society that needs an enemy. Communists countries, to this point, often turn into cults of personality, where the leaders often go to great lengths to keep public enemies so that the enemy can be persecuted. Once one group is neutralized, a new group ends up being a scapegoat. Conversely, the leader ends up needing to boost their ego: Leonid Brezhnev gave himself the Hero of the Soviet Union medal 4 times while he lead the Soviet Union - even though he was at best a mid-level political officer. Only one other person won the medal 4 times: General Georgy Zhukov, who was the most successful military commander from any army in WW2.
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Communism is a good idea to people who have been super oppressed for a long time.  Good idea but about as pratical as monkey with a gun. Eventually all communism turns into capitalism.
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Communism. Well, in Communism, everyone gets the same wage. So if the person next to me has only made one pair of shoes and I've made thirteen, how is this fair? Also, if you are making nails they'll tell you to make a certain size. But what if it's to small? You can't build a house with all small nails. \n\nIn communism though, since everyone gets the same wage, they people that need to work even though they have lost a limb get paid the same.\n\nIn Communist China, everyone shares land. It isn't your land, it's our land. So if you had a farm and I lost some of my crop, I could take some of yours. Even though we get paid the same, I may still need some of your crop for food. Also in China, you are allowed one child. If you have only one child you get tax, (or something like that) deductions and you get benefits. Everyone wants boys for their kids so that they can work on the farms. That is why many Chinese put their daughters up for adoption. \n\nSome nations that are Communist are North Korea and China.\n\nThis is all I know.\n\nfor more information go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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I am not a communist but in know this.\nCapitalism and Communisima are in a fight to the death.\nCaptilism has better PR.\nWhat we call Communism like Russsia Cuba China is not real communisim its not close, it is pretty much Fascism with the rehtoric of the worker, people ect. Those were horrible, Capitlism is horrible too but not as bad, depends on where you are in the food chain....\n\nIn theory shouldn't everyone be equal. Wouldn't god want that. isn't that what Heavan in our Christian doctrine is all about.\n\nHumor me now.....\nImagine if Heavan were physical place, during the 50 we would be threating to Bomb them....
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That depends on your definition of communism.If it has anything to do with what happened in the soviet union and china then i'd say :bad.If you want to keep an open mind and believe that all people should be paid the same and a generous amount then :good.Communism can be whatever we want it to be we can take the old ideals that were good about it and leave the bad behind.Or start over from scratch.There's no law that says we can't.To those who would have a knee jerk reaction to the mere mention of communism and dismiss it altogether I would ask you;what do you know about it other than what other people have told you to believe?Are you ready to think for yourself and actually read the manifesto and really try to understand what Marx was trying to accomplish?Are you open to the idea of social democracy?After intense scrutiny of Marx's work I've come to \nthe conclusion that what he really wanted was a system of social credit.Unfortunately some very bad people took his ideas and distorted them until they were unrecognizable and called it communism anyways and it got bad rap.In a democracy I think it's important to think creatively and critically about the choices we make politically and consider all the options if we are to have a sane and fair system of government.Communism is a viable option if we do it right.
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I can spot a flaw in your question. You ask for answers from Communist countries. You should know that in communist countries the Internet and all media is state controlled by the party and you aren't allowed to say anything negative about Communism, Communists, the Party or the country or anything that isn't pro-communist. Internet is heavily controlled and what you post on the net will be read by someone of authority in the country and then they could be jailed. So how could you get any good answers from currently communist countries (that's if they even manage to use this website since its pretty much freedom of speech on here) that say anything except how wonderful communism is?\n\nI'll give you my opinion on communism though - it is an utterly disgusting, failed policy and will never ever be a good thing!
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unity?\n you think it brought fu*king unity!\n\nyou are the biggest idiot on earth if you think that. If anything it brought fear, hate, and violent racism on anyone that did not fit the pure Russian Communist bill. My grandmother was a Atheist and a college professor in Moscow. Do you think that helped her escape abject poverty? \n\nwould it have helped her when Stalin was planing to put her and her infant child on a cattle car headed for Siberia!\n\nyou seriously need to learn some history before you talk about what you dont know.
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Karl Marx, Frederich Engles, and Co. did.  Of course, what is Communism again?  I know the governement didn't control people and money.  Especially in the Soviet Union.\n\nPatriotism\n\nValor\n\nLies\n\nTruth\n\nReligion\n\nIdeology\n\nHatred\n\nLove\nAll have been used to control people, money and institutions.  Whether their use was ethical or not is another question.  Read Plato's Gorgias
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Your description of Communism shows a lack of understanding of what Communism is and how it works. I suggest that before you start painting Jesus as a communist you first gain an accurate understanding of what Communism is.
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no!welcome to the real world,communism is just a theorie..the countries they had communism suffered from hunger and luck of opportunities..their goverments tried to manipulate the people and the ''big heads''were sharing all the wealth while the others had almost nothing.as long as money exists nothing can be shared equal in this world.
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Communism is not all bad, America and many countries just don't like it because it's pretty much the opposite of freedom which is what America value so much.\n\nIn China, before they turned communists, there were a lot of starving people who became sick and died because there was shortage of food, shelter, and medicine.  The aristocrats were wealthy and it was easy for them to make money because they had connections.  \n\nAfter that there was a group that turned the country into Communism, that's when all the food, and other necessities are taken from aristocrats and are devided among everybody.\n\nYou can see that communism saved lives in this situation.
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No.!!!\nNobody has ever practised Communism the way that Karl Marx visualised, as they say my donkey stays my donkey.!!!\nWhat is yours is mine. what is mine stays mine.\nHypocrites is what they all where, thieves and liars while the people suffered.!!!