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.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
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.
Capitalism appeals to the dark side of human nature.
The last words of Oscar Wilde, to the wallpaper in his room - "One of us has to go"
Communism worked in Russia so why not here
there was a picture here
Is that a joke?Originally Posted by Old Manus
The last words of Oscar Wilde, to the wallpaper in his room - "One of us has to go"
I thought Adam Smith promoted capitalism.
I was kinda hoping this thread would degenerate into spam. :\
Yep. A pretty funny one too.
eest was making a point, Neel.
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?
That is the right question.
there was a picture here
Communism was a complete flop in Russia.
The last words of Oscar Wilde, to the wallpaper in his room - "One of us has to go"
Got it. I was never good at critical reading. :\
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.
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.
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