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If you had to pick which one?

If you had to pick which one would you choose?

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ksu_aviator said:
I have no tollerance for anyone that advocates taking away my rights because they think they know better.
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Eh, almost all political ideologies do exactly this to some extent, although Communism is perhaps one of the more extreme and impractical.
 
Juiposa said:
I'd think you'd all know the differences. But yea I'll do that.
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Most Americans don't give enough of a **** to make any distinctions, as evidenced by some of the responses lol. idk about Canadians.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Eh, almost all political ideologies do exactly this to some extent, although Communism is perhaps one of the more extreme and impractical.
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Let's be practical. You can't make restrictions without infringing on someone's will. We just have to set limits to the restrictions.
 
Stalinism and Maoism are really form of authoritarianism, so they shouldn't count. The other three, like all forms of communism, are impossible to realize because they are theoretically unsound. Marxism and its variants are based on fundamentally incorrect assumptions about human nature.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Most Americans don't give enough of a **** to make any distinctions, as evidenced by some of the responses lol. idk about Canadians.
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Damn straight we don't. The only thing we want to know about Commies is their compass bearing, longitude, latitude and range... so we know where to aim the Howitzer. :mrgreen:
 
Goshin said:
Damn straight we don't. The only thing we want to know about Commies is their compass bearing, longitude, latitude and range... so we know where to aim the Howitzer. :mrgreen:
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I don't mind Communists as long as they commune with each other and leave me alone. long as they don't **** w/ me the howitzer can stay put.
 
Marxism is the original Communism, Marx's writing in a nut shell is of a Utopian society, everyone is equal, none more than another. Plus anarchy, his beliefs were of a stateless society. Ranked 3rd for me.

Marxist-Leninism is Lenin's tweaking of Marxism, which share many of the same principals, but has the idea of a vanguard party, because anarchy never lasts. My number 1.

Trotskyism is again elaboration on Marxist-Leninism, but he preached of the impossibility of "Socialism is one nation", basically having only one Communist country. He also believed in permanent revolution, revolution until the extinction of capitalism. Number 2

I'll group Moaism and Stalinism together as they are basically the same thing. These are what most people think of when they think of Communism. These are the ones that involve secret police, brutal policies, mass murder, restrictions of rights and other fun (sarcasm) stuff. Not even worthy of ranking.

Please we you see "Communism", don't think of Stalinism and Moaism right away, remember the other three, that aren't really that bad.
 
Juiposa said:
Marxism is the original Communism, Marx's writing in a nut shell is of a Utopian society, everyone is equal, none more than another. Plus anarchy, his beliefs were of a stateless society. Ranked 3rd for me.

Marxist-Leninism is Lenin's tweaking of Marxism, which share many of the same principals, but has the idea of a vanguard party, because anarchy never lasts. My number 1.

Trotskyism is again elaboration on Marxist-Leninism, but he preached of the impossibility of "Socialism is one nation", basically having only one Communist country. He also believed in permanent revolution, revolution until the extinction of capitalism. Number 2

I'll group Moaism and Stalinism together as they are basically the same thing. These are what most people think of when they think of Communism. These are the ones that involve secret police, brutal policies, mass murder, restrictions of rights and other fun (sarcasm) stuff. Not even worthy of ranking.

Please we you see "Communism", don't think of Stalinism and Moaism right away, remember the other three, that aren't really that bad.
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you don't know that, because they're THEORETICAL
 
Goshin said:
Damn straight we don't. The only thing we want to know about Commies is their compass bearing, longitude, latitude and range... so we know where to aim the Howitzer. :mrgreen:
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yeah they all sort of look the same through a US Optics 6-24X rifle scope
 
Juiposa said:
Marxism is the original Communism, Marx's writing in a nut shell is of a Utopian society, everyone is equal, none more than another. Plus anarchy, his beliefs were of a stateless society. Ranked 3rd for me.

Marxist-Leninism is Lenin's tweaking of Marxism, which share many of the same principals, but has the idea of a vanguard party, because anarchy never lasts. My number 1.

Trotskyism is again elaboration on Marxist-Leninism, but he preached of the impossibility of "Socialism is one nation", basically having only one Communist country. He also believed in permanent revolution, revolution until the extinction of capitalism. Number 2

I'll group Moaism and Stalinism together as they are basically the same thing. These are what most people think of when they think of Communism. These are the ones that involve secret police, brutal policies, mass murder, restrictions of rights and other fun (sarcasm) stuff. Not even worthy of ranking.

Please we you see "Communism", don't think of Stalinism and Moaism right away, remember the other three, that aren't really that bad.
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All of those are unrealistic, and bad forms of government.
 
Wow, Stalinism and Moasim. Wow is all I have to say.
 
Your Star said:
All of those are unrealistic, and bad forms of government.
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Unrealistic now, but things can be changed. No one has tried to work on the theories of communism is many years. I'm ending that. My own theory of Communism is in the works.
 
Juiposa said:
Unrealistic now, but things can be changed. No one has tried to work on the theories of communism is many years. I'm ending that. My own theory of Communism is in the works.
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Enlighten us, what could you have possibly thought of that would work that previous Communist philosophers could not?
 
StillBallin75 said:
Enlighten us, what could you have possibly thought of that would work that previous Communist philosophers could not?
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That communism can't be implemented. It would take a long time to convert a Capitalist country to Communism. All have made this mistake, and it always turns into the cluster ****s that we see today. Some are not even communism any more.
 
Juiposa said:
That communism can't be implemented. It would take a long time to convert a Capitalist country to Communism. All have made this mistake, and it always turns into the cluster ****s that we see today. Some are not even communism any more.
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So what's your brilliant idea?
 
StillBallin75 said:
So what's your brilliant idea?
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Not a ****ing clue, again I'm still figuring it out, nor do I think I will ever succeed. But it's nice to give a worth while idea a second chance.
 
Juiposa said:
Not a ****ing clue, again I'm still figuring it out, nor do I think I will ever succeed. But it's nice to give a worth while idea a second chance.
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I think most would disagree that Communism is a worthwhile idea.
 
Juiposa said:
Which of the five most prominent forms of communism would you pick if you had to?
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That's like asking which person do you want smashing your testicles with a hammer. Your nuts still get smashed, you can win no matter who you pick.
 
Juiposa said:
Unrealistic now, but things can be changed.
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The reason communism collapsed was because the economic system was a disaster.

Juiposa said:
No one has tried to work on the theories of communism is many years.
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That's because people generally stop working on theories once they flame out in a spectacular fashion. No serious biologists have worked on the theories of creationism in many years...that doesn't mean they need to start now. Similarly, no serious economists have worked on theories of communism in many years, because the underlying premise is ridiculous and empirically false.

Juiposa said:
I'm ending that. My own theory of Communism is in the works.
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How old are you?
 
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Juiposa said:
All those traits are of Stalinism and Moaism. Marxism, Leninism and Trotskism have nothing to do with any of that.
Another biased comment.
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One leads inevitably to the other. Voting for Marxism is functionally the same as voting for Stalinism.
 
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