The Man discusses Communism

I've been called a commie a few times I call people commies other times, most of the time it's just a word in a jokitive insult manner, Communists cannot hate everything as that's against their communism, they're practically hippies and should love everything if it's a far more exagurated form of socialism, but come on it can be funny seeing Americans faint from the word.

Marxist Communism as opposed to Adam Smith's version?

Communism will never work until human beings become mindless drones. It's human nature to want to be better than someone else, and to feel satisfied at being better than someone else.

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Capitalism appeals to the dark side of human nature.

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Communism worked in Russia so why not here

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Originally Posted by Old Manus

Communism worked in Russia so why not here

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Is that a joke?

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Originally Posted by eestlinc

Marxist Communism as opposed to Adam Smith's version?

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I thought Adam Smith promoted capitalism. :confused:

I was kinda hoping this thread would degenerate into spam. :\

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Originally Posted by Lost Number

Is that a joke?

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Yep. A pretty funny one too. :choc2:

eest was making a point, Neel.

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Originally Posted by The Man

The "one child policy" was prettymuch necessary for a country with such a population problem as China's, but unfortunately it's often led to female daughters being aborted, because they are considered to have an inferior place in their society. This will lead to additional problems in the future. The government really should give parents of daughters an extra cash incentive or something.

I'm honestly not sure what I think about that, because it's a huge restriction on people's freedoms, but then, overpopulation is an incredibly serious problem, and all the world is going to need to deal with it at some point.

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It was necessary, and it worked to some extent. Yes, the thing about the girls was unfortunate; but I think the situation is slowly changing. Hopefully the balance should be restored in a few years/over the next decade. It's always the education factor which leads people to believe that women can't have a job and support her family in this day and age. Because of China's Communism, people are being educated. So hopefully, anti-female attitudes as such should die out. :)

It's not completely a restriction of freedom per say (you are talking about the OC Policy, right?) because it merely offered incentives such as free education and healthcare to people who had only one kid. People from Capitalist/staunchly democratical countries might argue that EVERYONE is entitled to that, but let's not forget that even in places like India - the world's biggest democracy - people don't get free healthcare and education. So the one child policy did pretty much leave it up to people; and those who prioritised so, had only one child. Overpopulation is a huge problem, and who knows how bad it could be now had China not curbed its population growth rate?

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Originally Posted by Lost Number

Is that a joke?

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That is the right question.

Communism was a complete flop in Russia.

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Originally Posted by Yamaneko

eest was making a point, Neel.

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Got it. I was never good at critical reading. :\

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Communism will never work until human beings become mindless drones. It's human nature to want to be better than someone else, and to feel satisfied at being better than someone else.

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Yep.

Though now, I think some of the usual upstart members are contractually obligated to crack a joke at me about power abuse etc. Meh.

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Originally Posted by Lost Number

Communism was a complete flop in Russia.

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I wouldn't say that. It made them a super-power after WW2. Before WW2, during the Tsar's rule, they were suffering. The majority of the population were peasants, while the royal familuy and few others were really rich; who's to say that Russia would even remotely be where it is today without Communism? These rich-poor number numbers were small and huge; the gap was unreal.

It did make them a super-power, and something, somehow mucked up in there. It could be anti-Communist attitudes (Containment)...any number of factors. I haven't studied this bit of Soviet history, so I haven't identified what just yet; but I wouldn't say it was a complete flop.