NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple enough question. Poll to come.

As long as I'm alive, no.

As long as I'm alive, no.

I'm with you, the red bastards won't get past me.

I'm with you, the red bastards won't get past me.

*High-fives The blessed Chris, hands him a gun*

Let's get 'em! :D

For a communist revolution to ever succeed it has to have popular public support. It's never had that in the west. And now most of the world's communist nations have fell, like with the USSR and the Warsaw pact. Either that or they're communist in name only, like China. Because of this communism is no longer a major force in global politics. Communism is less likely to happen now than it's ever been.

It might, but it is looking less and less likely. I suspect that environmental destruction and/or transhumanism will destroy us before it has a chance to make a comeback, to be honest.

Highly unlikely, although we should never give up hope...



((:p @ the anarcho-capitalists))

There might be a possibility of it happening in the future, when no one living remembers communism's heyday. If I'm not mistaken, there is a communist party still in Russia being supported by a bunch of youths.

Some of you would really like to live in a nation like Cuba?
Some of you would really like your nation of origin to be like Cuba?

A Communist Socialist dictatorship.

The Problem with Communism is simple,
since the state controls everything like
all the means of production, all the
civil social organizations, it becomes
an automatic dictatorship, where there
can be no oposition to anything.

That is the reason all so-called communist socialist nations
have never practiced it the way it is supposedly meant to be.

The workers are never really in control of anything
it is the state that is in control and if you oppose
any government policy you are against the people
actually against the government not the people, and the
government not the people will take action against you.

All so-called communist socialist nations when they come to power
outlaw all diffrent political partys with diffrent economic, political and
social points of views that is the problem.

All begin by limiting freedoms of the press, economic and political freedoms.

There might be a possibility of it happening in the future, when no one living remembers communism's heyday. If I'm not mistaken, there is a communist party still in Russia being supported by a bunch of youths.

And Russia's current President, Vladimir Putrid, is an ex-KGB colonel and "former" member of the Communist Party.

Highly unlikely, although we should never give up hope...



((:p @ the anarcho-capitalists))

we are not anarch-capitalists, merely ardently anti-communist.

And Russia's current President, Vladimir Putrid, is an ex-KGB colonel and "former" member of the Communist Party.

Whats the got to do with anything. If you wanted to be get ahead in life you had to be a member of the communist party, and being a member of the KGB doesn't mean he believed in marxism as ideology. His policies now sure as hell don't reflect him as communist, authoritarion sure, but not a communist.

we are not anarch-capitalists, merely ardently anti-communist.
:p

we should never give up hope...

Theres no harm in dreaming!

I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime but can you really predict things like this?

I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime but can you really predict things like this?

Yes.

Possibly. If the conservatives succeed in rolling back the welfare state, and conditions are such as they were in the early 1930s, then it's a huge possibility. But given that governments have become Keynesized, economic downturns are less severe, so they would have to undo that, too. Then perhaps there will be enough hardship to cause it.

However, this doesn't mean that such a thing couldn't conceivably be voted in by law. But that doesn't count as a "revolution."

If we could skip from capitalistic to a communistic society right now(and it worked) I would be all for that. But its the transition phase(socialism) that causes all the problems. No socialist countries has advanced beyond the most primitive and brutal form of socialism(State-Capitalism). Which is ineffient, dictatoral and brings about bureaucracy that is no closer to the people then any other.

So it will not happen now and possiblely never.

Yes.
Fair enough.

we are not anarch-capitalists, merely ardently anti-communist.
I might not have been referring to you, you know...

I'm hoping for gradual democratic advancement towards a more advanced society, myself.:)

In the current anti-war "climate" (or whatever the buzzword is), the violent imposition of a party who favours killing anyone with a good job seems particularly unlikely.