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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:38 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 11:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: Before anyone gets too uppity for democracy remember the founding fathers had a dim view of it.
Quote:Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
And he has not yet been proven wrong.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:39 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 12:32 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (November 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Hammy Wrote: Naturalism?
Nudism.
Naturalism isn't the same thing as naturism.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:40 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 12:39 pm)Hammy Wrote: (November 23, 2017 at 12:32 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Nudism.
Naturalism isn't the same thing as naturism.
Never said it was.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:42 pm
I think communism has largely gotten an unfair rap. Properly applied, communism is really no harder to deal with than advanced gangrene or bubonic plague.
Lighten up, folks.
Boru
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:45 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 12:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think communism has largely gotten an unfair rap. Properly applied, communism is really no harder to deal with than advanced gangrene or bubonic plague.
Lighten up, folks.
Boru
Yeah, I'm not sure why I'm getting the feeling that people are sympathizing with communism here. This is a new one for me.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:47 pm
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(November 23, 2017 at 12:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think communism has largely gotten an unfair rap. Properly applied, communism is really no harder to deal with than advanced gangrene or bubonic plague.
Lighten up, folks.
Boru
Indeed, Improperly applied, it lasts for 2000 years and calls itself Catholicism, and a true horror that is.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:51 pm
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LOL right
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:51 pm
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(November 23, 2017 at 12:45 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (November 23, 2017 at 12:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think communism has largely gotten an unfair rap. Properly applied, communism is really no harder to deal with than advanced gangrene or bubonic plague.
Lighten up, folks.
Boru
Yeah, I'm not sure why I'm getting the feeling that people are sympathizing with communism here. This is a new one for me.
Well, all sorts of things began with higher motives than at the end.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 12:55 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 7:10 am)pool the matey Wrote: Are you a communist? What are you opinions about communism?
Note: I mean the Marxist-Leninist ideology to be more specific.
No.
I think it would work well in a small self-sustained community, but the most likely end result is zero innovation and initiative, everyone becoming a drone, a zombie, just another cog in the machine... Might have worked well on ancient tribal communities, but was invented a bit too late for them.
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RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Quote:Naturalism?
I doubt things were so good in Hunter/Gatherer groups.
Quote:Nudism.
Sunburn's a bitch.
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