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Communism (none / 0)
I know full well that the USSR never managed to get to communism. Their version is called "Soviet Communism" in academic circles. No-one's sure how to describe China's weird system and I know too little about Maoism to even venture a guess.

So no, no nation has ever achieved pure communism and I suspect that's because it's unworkable. In a small group, where you have an emotional or social connection to one another, communism can and has worked well but when it is imposed upoen a nation, you lose that emotional link and so communism becomes just another system to be exploited.

That's my opinion anyway.

by Ebon on 10/02/2009 09:12:00 PM EST

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they had marxism not communism right? (none / 0)

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time

by C D on 10/15/2009 02:35:50 PM EST

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They couldn't have been further away from (none / 0)
Marxism.

What they had was (Leninism-)Stalinism.

It really had nothing to do with communism, except that it sounds better to say "we have communism" than "from now on I'm your dicktator, suckers".

It's called branding.

The same thing that makes Ford claim a car is fuel efficient because it uses 21 mpg.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 10/15/2009 03:27:11 PM EST

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^ what he said ^ (none / 0)

by Ebon on 10/16/2009 09:42:37 AM EST

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Too Many Morons (foul language warning) | 24 comments (24 topical, 0 hidden)