communism

Why Communism is Wrong. I have written this primarily for students that are going through or just gone through the education system. The promotion of communism without a balanced counter argument does society no favours or service. A rational and balanced opinion about any subject can only be...

In another thread, a poster suggested that there is a material difference between Communism and Socialism, and claiming that while Communism is a failed ideology (or at least implying that the Marxist/Leninist iterations were), Socialism is not. This could not be further from the truth. First...

There seems to be a truism that abolishing captialism will lead to be end of racism. But if we had a system of worker co-ops or were property is communally owned, can't white people still oppress (inadvertently or not) black people by being the majority?

Now that new, improved Socialism 2.0 is here thanks to Bernie Sanders and AOC, can the updated communism be far behind? No, thanks to the New York Times' opinion page. In a way, it seems a throwback to only 2-3 years ago. Remember when everybody's job was going to be lost due to automation...

Here's Glenn Beck introducing the man named Aleksandr Dugin: 5KuRmiXjAgg I knew already that the picture of "the RASputin behind Putin" is completely bogus and his influence is vastly exaggerated by crackpots like Beck (if you think a man like Lavrov cares one bit about Dugin, you don't know...

This was found on facebook. It originated from some far right wing corner of the web. So much communism! All over Africa. Even Somalia. And Saudi Arabia. But not Canada or anywhere in Scandinavia. Hmmm

I'm thinking about writing a book about this. I have Jonah Goldberg's bull pucky Liberal Fascism book to thank for my inspiration. Looking at the way modern conservatives preach there philosophy and dismiss contradictory information, its seems very and eerily similar to the dogmatic nature that...

OK, it's easy to bash capitalism, communism, libertarianism, etc; and it's easy to talk about lofty theoretical ideas about economic systems. But which actual working system do you like best? In this thread, name your favorite real world (historic or present day) economic system--one that is...

I'm sorry, but the thread title, "Is communism a viable alternative economic system these days?" has been bugging me since the day it was posted: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=226311 Forget about "these days": Was communism ever actually viable? Were there ever...

Split from Cubans: Tell us about your country. Like many other countries in the "developed" world the UK's religion is shopping, particularly at this special time of the year.

She said: Source. Good thing this didn't come from a member of Congress who aspires to run for POTUS. . . uh oh!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/distractions.jpg I was reading this news story about a leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya that had exploded. Because it was around a slum area poor people were trying to recover some of the spilled gasoline for themselves, but ended up...

Everyone says how bad life was in Soviet Union, and when their system failed and was replaced with capitalism, everything has been assumed to be better. But are things really better now? When you read about modern day Russia you see a lot of suffering in daily lives of Russians. It doesn't...

in another thread, i read this: Originally Posted by Skeptic Actually communism has been antisemitic for a long time. Its founder had denounced his Jewish origins and was disgusted by Judaism (he hoped to convert all ethnic Jews to communism instead). It went downhill from there. Communist...

The table listed here shows how much US Treasury Binds are owned by communist and socialist countries. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgdO92JOXxAOdHRvb0Fpd3NndkFOdVpkY1hzdHhldXc#gid=0 It seems the USA needs Communism to keep afloat.

I know a few Communists and Socialists. They spend endless amounts of energy complaining and whining about Capitalism, the rich, socio-economic disparities, ect. etc. And yet..they seem to spend very LITTLE time gaining new skills, improving their lives, going back to school, taking courses...

http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2010/D40190.htm#3 Romanians Say Communism Was Better than Capitalism - James Cross, 21st Century Socialism, October 17, 2010 - According to a recent poll conducted in Romania, a large majority of those who expressed an opinion stated that life was better when the Communist...

In his/her incomprehensibly titled "Atheism in the Wheelchair Made in USA" thread, epix made the claim that "Communism and atheism are effective synonyms", even implying that atheists who state that they are not communist (or Communist - I'm not sure the distinction is clear to epix) are lying...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/cuban-communism-doesnt-work-castro/story-e6frf7jx-1225916502022 I found that interesting.

I know a few Communists. None of them are very succesful in life. They don't make much money, they haven't achieved much in their careers. They tend to be single. Some of them, are total bums...living in their mom's basement with very low level jobs that they hate. What they ALL have in...

A courageous and seemingly influential Chinese general has urged his country's leadership to become more liberal and adopt an American-style system. http://www.theage.com.au/world/chinese-general-backs-the-american-dream-20100811-11zsr.html Is this a positive sign of things to come, or a...

This is more of a rant...here it goes: http://www.anti-communist.net/ What really irks me about some of these religious fundamentalists is that they bring out their pseudosciences and superstitions to "provide a case against" communism, when in fact some, or most, of their evidence has nothing...

This new claim should probably be split to another thread where you can provide evidence that a) a large proportion of the Communist movements were Jewsih and b) this led to anti-semitism. You can provide evidence for your claims, can't you?

So how come so many communists in Russia hate jews? If communism is a jewish conspiracy than how come communists in Russia are anti-zionist or anti-ZOG? Why do communists in Russia talk the same way nazis do? :confused: Many communists I have talked to also claim that there is a zionist...

This question has been asked ever since the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and transformed Czarist Russia into the Soviet Union. Although Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and all the other communist leaders claimed they were aiming to transform Russia into a socialist society, many political...

This is a spin off from a thread in the politics forum. Here's the pertinent exchange:

Linky. My only response: Whoa.

This morning's LA Times features an article about the recent addition of fluoride to the LA County municipal water Linky Is our purity of essence (POE) at risk? Have the commies finally won? Where is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake? Satirize...

So, I just finished Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. I picked it up because I was interested in 20th century Chinese history and realized I knew very little about it (Nationalists vs. Communists, The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, etc.). The book itself...

Well, I'm not going to claim full responsibility for this one. Several years ago I read an article by Aldous Huxley (sorry, I don't remember its title, I have googled without result, I vaguely remember that it had a connection to his interest in Vedanta (form of hinduism)) Huxley's central...