Every war we've fought since after the end of WW2 has been either to fight communism or for profit. Which is really absurd because there hasn't been a single truly communist country in the entire history of the world. Every country that has claimed to be communist has been abusing Marx's philosophies to found fascist governments masquerading as ( Read more... )

Actual communism is antithetical to authoritarianism. We have not yet seen actual communism applied to an entire country yet. What we've seen is dictators feigning communistic concern as an excuse to rise to power.

Communism by its very definition is when the people come together - willingly, as a majority of the population - and seize the means of ( Read more... )

As much as I want to think a revolution could help change our economic structure to communism, I think it's not going to work out that way. Feudalism didn't vanish until after the plague wiped out most of the labor, making feudalism ill adapted to the new realities of the world, so it got abandoned and replaced ( Read more... )

So this idiot was like "If you support Bernie Sanders you might as well be a self proclaimed communist cause he's a communist dressed in "democratic socialists ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up, and in the few minutes after that, I had the random memory of someone mocking another communist for using products from capitalism (such as computers), and I thought about what my response to that would be. And this is what I came up with ( Read more... )