Why aren't you a communist?

[Woberts]

Alright, it's time for another fringe ideology: communism!
It has had its ups and its downs over the years. (That's a mild way of putting it. )
So, why aren't you a communist?

 

[Estro Felino]

Because Marx was an Utopian...

 

[Revoltingest]

I might be a communist if it weren't for all the oppression,
famine, & plodding dullness of life under such a regime.
Other than those things, it sounds pretty good!

 

[Terese]

I don't think it works in practice. I also have reservations about everyone earning the same amount of money.

 

[Rival]

I love Communism.

It makes my ideology look even better than it is.

 

[Sunstone]

Stereotypes aside, I don't know enough about the various kinds of communism to consider myself a communist.

 

[Rival]

I also have reservations about everyone earning the same amount of money.

They don't. They earn according to their needs (so said).

 

[Terese]

They don't. They earn according to their needs (so said).

Interesting. According to needs sounds somewhat vague, but i suppose people who would rule such a society would require more needs, yes? That could turn into a class system comprised of "needs". It might not, but i doubt it.

 

[Rival]

Interesting. According to needs sounds somewhat vague, but i suppose people who would rule such a society would require more needs, yes? That could turn into a class system comprised of "needs". It might not, but i doubt it.

It is vague indeed. The vagueness of the ideology as a whole lends it to all sorts of deviations and strangeness. From the outside it looks very fleshed out, but inside it's a bit thin.This is why Communist parties factionalise and bicker endlessly and do nothing.

 

[Woberts]

Stereotypes aside, I don't know enough about the various kinds of communism to consider myself a communist.

Man, if you think politics in the USA are weird, just wait until you learn about communism's forms. There's Marxism, Marx-Leninism, Stalininsm, Trotskyism, Pol-Potism (which is essentially fundamentalist Marxism, but with some twists), Maoism, Luxemburgism, and Dengism.
And that's just what I thought of off the top of my head.

 

[YmirGF]

I've read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao. Is there a better reason for not being a Communist?

 

[Woberts]

I've read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao. Is there a better reason for not being a Communist?

I'm sensing a quote attributed to a particular famous person within that post. Hmmmmmm…….

 

[Rival]

I've read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao. Is there a better reason for not being a Communist?

Marx and Engels actually had some rather fundamental differences, iirc. It was interesting.

 

[Mindmaster]

Alright, it's time for another fringe ideology: communism!
It has had its ups and its downs over the years. (That's a mild way of putting it. )
So, why aren't you a communist?

Because, it hasn't worked since John Smith. But, besides that there is no government utilizing the system that doesn't have a laundry list of basic human rights violations. I'm sure someone will come out of the woodwork here to say, "But, they aren't EXACTLY communism blah blah blah", despite the fact that they are the ONLY incarnations of it. If it turns to **** every time somehow then there is a fault and the complexities of that would take threads to address, but it's obviously never working out for anyone.

 

[YmirGF]

I'm sensing a quote attributed to a particular famous person within that post. Hmmmmmm…….

I'm not all that famous. Ok, I'm a bit of a draw in the cul de sac, but it's not like I have to beat a path to the car through the waiting Paparazzi. (Did I unwittingly say something similar to a famous quote?)

 

[Rival]

Also, I have yet to hear someone say,
'But that's not true capitalism!'

 

[YmirGF]

Also, I have yet to hear someone say,
'But that's not true capitalism!'

You are getting perilously close to triggering me with that last comment!

 

[Aupmanyav]

By inclination, I am a communist. Some people should not be so rich while others starve. You can say that I am a socialist. Communism clashes with my religion. And communism does not help poor, that is what our experience says. That is why I am not a communist.

 

[Woberts]

Communism clashes with my religion. That is why I am not a communist.

Wait, what? Is this about how Communist states are atheistic, or something else entirely?

 

[Aupmanyav]

I am an atheist Hindu, so that is not a problem. But communism is anti-religion, which I am not.