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Is communism possible in the USA?

Is communism possible in the USA?

  • Yes, Soviet type of communism

    Votes: 9 9.1%
  • Yes, community type of communism

    Votes: 10 10.1%
  • Yes, religious type of communism

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • Yes, other type of communism

    Votes: 12 12.1%
  • No, not possible

    Votes: 57 57.6%
  • Dunno

    Votes: 3 3.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 6.1%

  • Total voters
    99
Isn't it illegal to be a communist in the US?
 
Stupid? Yes. Illegal? No.

Oh. I'd heard that the Communist Party was against the law for advocating the overthrow of the US government.
 
we all know that Marx said "religion is the opium of the people" but in reality, communism can sit quite comfortably alongside religion. the catholic church is alive and well in Cuba, in post Stalinist USSR, several orthodox churches were revived, and while most religion was suppressed in Vietnam, one branch of Buddhism was acceptable.

Lets not forget about Mormons. I think they probably came the closet to realizing a true religous communist society...and that was here in the US.
 
Oh. I'd heard that the Communist Party was against the law for advocating the overthrow of the US government.

It's not illegal to advocate the overthrow the government. We get a chance to overthrow them every two years, it's called voting. If it was illegal to advocate overthrowing the government, then only incumbents could run for office.
 
If left uncontested to push corpocracy to the extreme, Kapitalist America will become the worlds poster child for tyrannical government. Of course they will call their new capital in Connecticut Reagangrad and their policies Reaganomics. And there will be purges.
 
If left uncontested to push corpocracy to the extreme, Kapitalist America will become the worlds poster child for tyrannical government. Of course they will call their new capital in Connecticut Reagangrad and their policies Reaganomics. And there will be purges.

You need to tell your crack dealer to get better quality product, the bad stuff seems to adversely affected your mental abilities.
 
It's not illegal to advocate the overthrow the government. We get a chance to overthrow them every two years, it's called voting. If it was illegal to advocate overthrowing the government, then only incumbents could run for office.

Well, advocating a change of lawmakers and governors is not the same as advocating an overthrow of the government but I'm probably wrong either way. Just that I heard that the Communist Party was illegal but a brief, careless google makes no mention of it so I guess I heard wrong.
 
If you observe the trends in this country for the last 100 years I'd say we are well along on the 'Long March'.
What began with the Sixteenth Amendment ended with the Affordable Care Act.
The Republic is dead Long Live the King!
 
Neither communism nor socialism is possible, anywhere, as long as scarcity exists.
 
Lets not forget about Mormons. I think they probably came the closet to realizing a true religous communist society...and that was here in the US.

or liberation theology - Catholicism with a distinctly Marxist flavor.

come to think of it, there are a number of Muslim countries that have also had a distinctly socialist orientation.

In more traditional societies where both religion and a collectivist culture is strong, communism can be far more attractive than rampant individualistically oriented capitalism.

but that's a digression - the US as is it now will not (probably never) become communist, because communism (Marxist influenced or not) requires the individual to work on behalf of the common good, rather than for me, myself, I - which is anathema to a people brought up to think that they are the centre of the universe and their rights trump everybody else's.
 
Well Mary once they are effectively taxing you at an 80% rate it really won't matter whether you think you are
'working for yourself' or the 'common good' will it?
 
No, not at commonly accepted and defined parameters. However, the official confirmation that the U.S. government can kill U.S. citizens without a trial, detain them indefinitely, and spy on them "lawfully" is paramount to something other than the image of America we were all taught in school as kids. We were supposed to be the good guys, the best. You know, American exceptionalism. But, as time unfolds and new policies are voted into law, that concept, that exceptionalism, it is seemingly becoming more and more of a pipe dream. What's stopping America from becoming something like the USSR is that the government isn't disappearing or killing us in bulk.
 
my my my Jango you seem to be noticing a trend there eh? :lol:
 
My personal position is a complete and total disagreement with the headlong rush towards totalitarianism but I'm just a stick in the mud Right wing Conservative wacko.
 
It shouldn't read: Is communism possible in the USA?
It should ask: which of the tenets of communism have yet to be fully realized in Amerika ?
 
Oh, and anyone who thinks that the USSR was communist is retarded.

The usual stupid excuse for those who are still in denial about the totalitarian and anti-democratic nature of communism and its utter failure.
 
The usual stupid excuse for those who are still in denial about the totalitarian and anti-democratic nature of communism and its utter failure.

While the Soviet Union was undoubtedly totalitarian, communism - in its most pure form - is the epitome of democracy.
 
Artevelde said:
The idea of claiming that Christ espoused a particular ârty political ideology is ridiculous.

This may be ridiculous (though, if Jesus was God, he was surely aware of communism, as such). What isn't ridiculous is claiming that the ideas of Jesus are harmonious with the core ideas and motivations of communism--as they surely are.
 
Well, advocating a change of lawmakers and governors is not the same as advocating an overthrow of the government but I'm probably wrong either way. Just that I heard that the Communist Party was illegal but a brief, careless google makes no mention of it so I guess I heard wrong.

What does instituting different economic policies have to do with overthrowing the government? There's nothing antithetical to socialist policy in the US constitution.

Neither communism nor socialism is possible, anywhere, as long as scarcity exists.

And in this country, it really doesn't. Or rather, it doesn't have to, and we artificially create it. Scarcity is only ever going to decrease as technology improves. Socialism is basically inevitable, both for this country and for the world.

but that's a digression - the US as is it now will not (probably never) become communist, because communism (Marxist influenced or not) requires the individual to work on behalf of the common good, rather than for me, myself, I - which is anathema to a people brought up to think that they are the centre of the universe and their rights trump everybody else's.

I think it can change. Even selfish douchebags can eventually learn to act like adults.
 
yes Paschendale socialism can work only when there is a gun to your head

Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

I hope you aren't too impatient to wait a little longer to see your communist socialist utopian dream become a reality in the good old US of A
some of us would rather not live like the Germans did behind the iron curtain for all those years M'kay?
 
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