I think, in fact, what you argued was “why I am no longer a Communist,” and you can be thought of as favoring a kind of social democracy with more effort directed at climate change. But before we get to psychoanalyzing you, let me start with a simple factual question....
4. a social order or system of government established by a ruling Communist Party, esp in the former Soviet Union 5. Chiefly US any leftist political activity or thought, esp when considered to be subversive 6. communal living; communalism Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © Har...
DarkoInternational Critical Thought«Communism Can Only Be Radical Plebeian Democracy: Remarks on the Experience of S.F.R. Yugoslavia and on Civil Society», in: Inter- national Critical Thought, Vol. 6, Nr. 2, 2016 (a), 165-89.
Communism as a theory of government and social reform may be said, in a limited sense, to have begun with the ancient Greek idea of the Golden Age, a concept of a world of communal bliss and harmony without the institution of private property. Plato, in hisRepublic,outlined a society with...
Realthought In favour of capitalism economists AsLee Harris, December 1, 2002, sums up, Communism was disproved long ago, in the 19th century. Marginalizing Conservative Ideason campus, by David Horowitz. How students read works that have been completelydisprovedby history, and are kept away from...
Our first item notes that one failure under socialist economics can sometimes be offset by another failure. Our next item could have been used in a stand-alone column as counter-tweet of the year. I guess @clarasorrenti believes in killing with love. ...
affair. The morality of the war was hazy, and I can see reasons to fight it. On the other hand, I object to the use of the United States Army as the enforcement arm of Exxon and my friends catching shrapnel to satisfy some jerk in the Pentagon that the "Vietnam Syndrome" is over....
How I digress. The whole point of that "thought" was to simply say that just because an idea was tagged as a philosophy doesn't necessarily mean it is true in all cases and has no fault. To someone who is well-read like yourself, this is no major revelation. However, keep in mind...
Communism is a form of government which promotes the idea -- at least in theory -- that the working class should unite and overthrow societal forces which control the means of production and implement common ownership of all resources. Communist thought can be traced to the Renaissance period, ...
Of course decent engineering can be very much undone by poor build quality, limited competition, and corner cutting, which sums up communistical manufacturing nicely, and thus the Lada (and Soviet cars in general) quickly became known for being total crap. And that was even when compared to ...