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Capitalism=greed 
Faccism=racist 
socialism=an insult to communism 
communism=sense 
how many communists are out there??
Come on. This is the 21st century. Communism is dead, get over it.
Socialist here.
Having come from the Soviet Union and my parents telling me enough about their expriences of communism to never have to make that mistake.
Communists are fools with good intentions.
When the Berlin wall fell there was a sign that said âSorry guys it was just an Idea -Karl Marxâ
Its the balance of capitalism and socialism that is ideal. The balance of Liberalism and conservatism.
The middle way is truly best.
Socialism is the middle way between capitalism and communism.
Also, how can you be a full fledged capitalist if youâre looking for socialist ideals as well?
Good point Raf, you are right I am not.
none of the above⌠so long as society is based around economics it will always lead to the same problems
communism is the highst form of socialism. in my opinion, communism has never happened. dialectical materialism blahblahbla, after periods of struggle and social evolution.
capitalism is not greed so much as it is exploitation⌠:\
Precisely and communism takes u firther away from economics as it were and closer to ⌠i donât know⌠closer to what just seems right, i gues. Although everyone has pretty warped impressions of what is right.
No itâs not. Iâm still here. And so is Castro 
I would love to meet your parents. But i canât argue with that. If they experienced it first hand, then who the hell am i to judge. I just think, they lived under the rule of people who abused communsism. When the Berlin wall fell it was just a sign, âsorry Stalin, you couldnât subjugate us forever!â although stalin wasnât all bad (i know thats a controversial belief) he was just quite demented. A balance⌠hmm⌠somehow i think greed would eventually prevail if there was even an ounce of capitalist influence.
this is such a moronic thread that i havenât commented. but this article explains the truth behind communisim as one of the most bloodiest regimes known to man:
http://www.reason.com/0404/cr.gg.fools.shtml
Nikol_numb wrote:
castro isnât ruling as a communist. heâs ruling as a dictator.
http://slate.msn.com//?id=2098860&
finally, my grandparents came from a âcommunistâ countryâŚand escaped when the government started killing my relatives. now, if you think that public hangings âseems rightâ under a system that does so if you do not vote in the popular party, then you have a demented view of government. the fact of the matter here is that this thread, this statement, this opinion that you hold is possible to only be stated outside of a âcommunistâ country. nothing approaching a similar amount of freedom can be granted to those under a âcommunistâ rule.
Heâs ruling as a communist dictator.
Is it wrong for man to desire to have more for himself? I believe only when he takes away from another it is. But an employer who produces jobs for people and takes a bigger part of the pie which his company brings in is not being greedy but producing something for someone who doesnât have something; the job and the product. People should be paid based upon the value they bring to A. other people, B. the Society.
Is Bills Gatesâs wealth unreasonable? Depends on how valuable you think windows is and always remember what he has is chump change compared to what the company earns and the amount of value it brings to everyone even you and me.
I believe because of the rate of technology and human innovation that our resourses are unlimited as is our wealth.
hmmmâŚyou know, something about iraq and certain weapons of mass destruction lead me to believe that perhaps information from the CIA is not all that reliable.
report from the un human rights watch sums up nicely why heâs a dictator, although i thought one would have got that from my other article i linked, but notice that neither castro nor the UN is trying to pretend that what heâs got is a communist state. we are letting him say heâs got a socialist thing going on. yes, i always thought mass imprisonment of political opponents meant a socialist system. speaking of iraq, seems like americaâs brought socialism to the middle east. as well as crazy chicks who keep giving the thumbs up, seriosuly, what is her problem!!!???
http://hrw.org/wr2k3/americas5.html
hereâs another site, but it seems to be grossly in denial about the whole thing altogether:
http://www.worldinformation.com/World/camerica/Cuba/profile.asp?p=2&country=053.
well, the working class that supports castro is represented⌠
By having something, isnât that man that has it taking it away from everyone else? By allowing a man to own property, no other man can own that property. Capitalism is a win/lose system where everytime some one wins, gets a job/promotion, wins a scholarship, ect., they are taking that away from someone else who tried to get it. We assume that the person who got the job or whatever is in question got it because they earned it, that they deserve it more than anyone else who applyed, but the only reason that the winner was able to win was because his family had the money to send him to a good school, that he didnât have to work to support his family and could focus on his studies, that he didnât have to care for his dying mother who didnât have health insurance.
Capitalism is a system where a person is rewarded because of what they have, property yeilds capital, capital can be used to obtain property. The cap between rich and poor can only become larger.
The goal economy would be one where each man gives what he is able and is provided all he needs. Humanity is not ready for this, yet.
Some advocate an economy where each man recives equivilant to what he produces. I think this is a mistake, but itâs close. Before âfrom each according to ability to each according to needâ there needs to be a stage of âto each according to effortâ where a man is awarded equal to the amount of effort he puts out and not how much product he actually produces. For example, a bachelor could work 10 hour days 7 days a week and be extremely productive; but a man with a wife and children could not do this, is he to be punish because he fullfills his duty to his work and his family? Things like this need to be taken into account, not just how much he produces or how many people he can step on (in the case of Capitalism.
Not if resourses are unlimited.
[finally, my grandparents came from a âcommunistâ countryâŚand escaped when the government started killing my relatives. now, if you think that public hangings âseems rightâ under a system that does so if you do not vote in the popular party, then you have a demented view of government. the fact of the matter here is that this thread, this statement, this opinion that you hold is possible to only be stated outside of a âcommunistâ country. nothing approaching a similar amount of freedom can be granted to those under a âcommunistâ rule.
Ok mate fair enough. iâm sorry about your grand parents and your relatives. They were victim to sick minds who took advantage of the system so that they could establish dictatorship. communism doesnât equal USSR and USSR does not equal communism. unfortunately the Ussr and the purges and the subjugation has all become associated with probably one of the most moral and selfless and giving systems. Read about Marxism and uâll understand why i have my âdementedâ view. people are so onetrack minded. they refuse to see beyond STALIN and all those other numbnuts.
AND BY THE WAY, WHETHER OR NOT CASTRO IS RULING AS A DICTATOR IS BESIDES THE POINT. I JUST MENTIONED HIM TO PROVE THAT COMMUNISM ISNâT DEAD. dictator or not, heâs still alive.
and he actually saved Cuba from Batistaâs dictatorship. read your history people. when the americans attempted to âliberateâ Cubans from rule in 1961 at the Bay of Pigs not a single Cuban joined the American-backed Cuban exiles against him. Secondly, before Castro people were exploited, poor, and the American-backed (therefore capitalist-backed) dicatator Batista ran a corrupt regime. Castro liberated Cuba. I wonât say Castro has been a wonderful leader either. I mean heâs also misinterpreted the concepts of communism and used it to secure himself, in ways that are hardly comendable. However, i just thought iâd come to the poor guyâs defence. He isnât all bad and he DOES have his supporters. He DID liberate Cuba, and he has managed to keep a system that everyone (unfortunately) has lost faith in.
Communsim doesnât suppress your rights, historical leaders did.
i agree lanky wanky. thanx for that commeny. tâwas wonderful. is KSC what i think it is??
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oh, iâm sure castro has his supports. and the great thing is, those supporters in cuba get to live. the opponents living in cuba donât. hey mate, you know whatâs cool about living in a democracy/liberal society? that both a supporter AND an opponent to Castro (and even their own ruler) gets to live. itâs this slight detail, this minor glitch that all communists seem to overlook, that always gets me.
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my grandparents and relatives arenât from a soviet country. but were from a country that thought it was communist.
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i read marx. and engles. and rousseau, who actually started the whole thing. with marx, though, itâs important to remember, that he was a student of capitalism, not communisim. his observations pertain to capitalistic marketsâŚhe would have had dramatically different things to say if he was commenting on communist regimes.