communism MercynRe please stop locking me in a box all by myself - why do you tell me what to think and if i'm not a capitalist you label me as a dangerous "subversive" when really all i am trying to do is find a new way around these problems... 010427 ... Effingham Fish A great idea that will never work. Kiss me, son of God. 011203 ... paste! shqueekyd'ball 011204 ... carne de metal I ask you how things could get much worse if the russians happened to get up there first. 020216 ... phil never understood how communism became a highschool cliche 020216 ... reitoei communism is idealism to the extreme. its for people who think "why can't we all get along" has an answer. actually it does. humans are imperfect and will never cooperate. aristotle asked if man was good or evil. man is evil. even if 99% of the population gets along and cooperates the one percent will bring everything crumbling down. the only way communism is possible is through psych screening and selective births. but then you have Huxley or Orwell's nightmare-which might not be so bad. I'm socialist by the way. 020216 ... sjakkie This is a very weird system. They used to have it in Russia and so. 020403 ... Lumenia It's good in theory. 020403 ... madhatter Freedom under a flag of red Money disappears and flowers grow, factories close and children grow. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky - Thinkers of humanity, lovers of the new way. 020907 ... Drake Dracoli Communism is equality. Equality is life. Communism is not Capitalism. Capitalism is inequality. Capitalism is death. 030217 ... erin. i have two hours to write a paper on communism. two hours, a deadline i set for myself-- a falsely set time so that i might go swimming this morning. perhaps if my paper were the property of the people, someone else wouldn't mind taking over where i left off, for the greater good of me. but there are no communists to write my paper about communism for me. thus, i consult my sources-- which are lacking in more ways than one-- and hope that i might be able to crank out 5-7 pages of acceptable drivel before the sun has risen. 030226 ... Black Argonaut this may shock most of the world: a large portion of the Constitution of the United States (God bless America) is based on communistic ideas. No, that doesn't mean Lenin and Stalin's communism where everyone works and they get rich. It is the principle of communism where every citizen has an equal chance for betterment and every citizen works for the betterment of the nation/fellow citizens. You learn somthing new every day. I love college. 030226 ... lidown red_star 030412 ... screqwing for virginity Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism the reverse is true. John Kenneth Galbraith 030413 ... trust me every highschooler knows more about communism than the entire political body combined 030727 ... Strideo "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." What a load of crap. People who think you aren't entitled to keep what you earn should either grow up or get over their jealousy. Its just wild idealism based on a bad idea not a good one. ... 030727 ... endless desire mao_loves_you 030727 ... Smurf lol 040419 ... Smurf Ahh Fine, I'll say something usefull. You're all going about this the wrong way. Seek not to compare communism with capitalism, but isolate them in their own forms and then see the advantages and disadvantages of each. This does not mean immagine their idol state, this means immagine their probable state, without predujice of current events. 040419 ... LoneWolf communism would work if humans weren't so greedy human beings are a cancer on this world anything good doesn't get a chance 040627 ... black_jesus communism is the best idea, and that's where our world will go too eventually. 040702 ... nonlucid might work in a group of four(ty?) or so people the masses require a firmer hand to guide them, methinks 040702 ... peintre my grandparents were communists. arrested again and again. for nothing, really. late 1940's. the red scare. combined with civil rights. who am i today? i'm not sure. lacking something, i'm sure. dry protests. for nothing, really. what now? 040703 ... xx ccp 211122 what's it to you? who go blather from