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Politics Poll; please answer
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Okay, posters in the Politics forum, please read the last parts of this;
Stealgate vs. the world
and please vote on this simple issue, a one word answer, yes or no will suffice;
Is Communism an extremist political grouping?
Stealgate vs. the world
and please vote on this simple issue, a one word answer, yes or no will suffice;
Is Communism an extremist political grouping?
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any form of government that seeks to change the world is extreme.
(though there are a huge number of interpretations of communism and probably every individual has a slightly different view.)
Its on the same level as fascism.
yes, but other governments are democratic. Communism is not a democratic form of government, not in practice anyway.
Ideally the people vote for ALL the people who run things. In reality the people have little or no say. Take Russia and China for example.
And before Stealgate spouts off how they aren't communist countries, Russia and China are/were perfect examples of why communism will never work in a modern day society.
Openly hating a group because of their ethnicity, sexuality etc I deam to be far worse than anything Marx ever purported....
Just because they had different beliefs. Stalin reportedly hated the jews just as much as Hitler.
This is the fundamental flaw of communism. It is far too idealistic.
People will ALWAYS crave power. Anybody here, if given half a chance would want to be in charge of something, I know I would.
The personalities of individuals is why communism will never work, because there will always be an INDIVIDUAL running everything behind the scenes.
Stalin hated everybody, he just never had the chance to kill them all. It's well known he had a deep seated hatred of Germans as well as Jews. Given half a chance he would have slaughtered the population of East Germany.
As I have argued with, and told so many people: Communism can NEVER work in real society.
People are equal in being poor, while the leaders who "crave" for equality dont have any problem running about in their nice houses looking out on their poor "brothers" and actually not being that "equal" with them.
I think Mr Orwell sums it up best.
Yep, thats communism spot-on. Good one!
You may not believe me, but I really don't crave power. I just wish to be left to live my life, and to be able to enjoy myself.