Can we all at least agree that Communism is bullshit?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Actually that's a pretty transparent way to dodge giving a definition you were asked for four times but obviously don't have. On the contrary I'm seriously telling us that YOU don't. And you keep demonstrating it.

I would have thought you'd know what it is from the Cold War. Evidently I was wrong. Here you go: Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1)

See why we say PdeP will be slow, dear? Do you have the IQ to be here?

You do realize I was screwing with Señor Baiamonte with that post, right?

No, you're a racist socialist.

Whether that's true of him or not, at least he's not a Commie. That's one base for a bridge to be built.

 

[Pogo]

Actually that's a pretty transparent way to dodge giving a definition you were asked for four times but obviously don't have. On the contrary I'm seriously telling us that YOU don't. And you keep demonstrating it.

I would have thought you'd know what it is from the Cold War. Evidently I was wrong. Here you go: Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1)

Pfft. That ain't communism. That's a book by Marx and Engels. Communism was around long before they were born. And besides -- I didn't ask for a link to somewhere that explains it ... I asked for *YOUR* definition. That means your own words. After all, it's your question; you can't pose it without defining what your terms mean.

Your deflection informs me that you don't have one. And your reference to the "Cold War" confirms it.

See why we say PdeP will be slow, dear? Do you have the IQ to be here?

You do realize I was screwing with Señor Baiamonte with that post, right?

You do realize I was channeling the same Special Ed to make the "slow" point gently, right?

 

[David_42]

Communism sounds nice on paper, but it doesn't work, just like unregulated capitalism.

 

[Programmer]

Communism even sounds silly on paper.

 

[Pogo]

Here ya go OP -- this is a partial post from yesterday in the other thread...

Thanks for the in-depth and for shedding light on this group, Pogo. I think it's very noble of what this group is doing. I still disagree with you on labeling it as communism though.

Communism
[kom-yuh-niz-uh m]

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noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
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-- Well, that's exactly, in every way, what they're doing. How does it not fit?

Approximately 100 million have been murdered, killed, starved, under communism.

How?
No one's ever been killed "under" this communism, not even in a "legitimate" war. Ever. And by that I mean literally Zero.

Now, you can go find populations decimated by despots, totalitarian dictators or incompetent administrators (or any combo thereof) who also claim to be communists, but they might also claim to be music lovers or stamp collectors. Doesn't make for a causation.

...... Especially in that Red Scare political bullshit of the '50s.
That wasn't communism -- that was politics. And political euphemisms, I need to tell no one on this board, are among the most bullshitious ever invented.

Want to know what those references are? Well yer just gonna have to get off yer ass and go read it. I ain't retyping the whole thing a day later. I've got work to do.

 

[Avatar4321]

Totally agree. It doesn't even work in theory.

So why did we elected a communist to the presidency?