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If you wouldn't mind elaborating more, why is it a vile idea on paper? AFAIK, every practical implementation of "communism" falls so short of the description,
by Karunamon 11y ago
If you wouldn't mind elaborating more, why is it a vile idea on paper?
AFAIK, every practical implementation of "communism" falls so short of the description, both ideal and transitionally, in things like The Communist Manifesto as to be blatantly lying when they use the name for themselves.
And then you have countries right now like China which blatantly abuse the label. (At the very least: If your country is engaged in capitalism, you are doing it wrong.)
- happyscrappy 11y ago>every practical implementation of "communism" falls so short of the description And the same for Christianity or any other religion, but at least they had some positive outcomes.
- Karunamon 11y agoThe equivalent to your analogy would be a self-professed Christian worshipping an image of a goat and chanting "hail satan". There's a difference between merely failing as an imperfect human being and actively working against the ideology you supposedly support.
- happyscrappy 11y agoIn order to say communism is viable it would be nice to have at least one success to reference. Former citizens of communist countries never cite its virtues, quite the opposite, only confused liberals in the West sing its praises.
- Karunamon 11y agoThat's an excellent statement of your opinion but a poor answer to my question.