(March 21, 2016 at 6:52 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: Communism is really fascism at the top, and collectivism for the masses. Communism is really a way to control a brainwashed public, while keeping their power suppressed, and the public content thinking it's a utopia. It's the reason the Chinese communist party restricts internet access, to create harmony. They are actually very nationalistic. It's almost like national socialism. Hitler was all about creating a mind controlled public, and so is communism. Most communists I come across always try to hide under another label, usually socialists, because they need to lie to get their agenda going. Communism was always meant to be a scam, which is why all communist governments fail, but the leadership always has it good.
A bit more of ignorant hogwash? Well, what else should one expect?
Just because the Chinese call themselves communists doesn't mean they are. They're totalitarian, but even the basics of communism are absent. They don't soften their totalitarian rule by taking care of their population. There's no healthcare, no social security and no workplace regulations to mention. There is however unchained capitalism, which should be another hint that this is not a communist regime, since the state, or more likely certain persons in the hierarchy, make a hell of a profit. The state on the other hand doesn't own shit. It's all private.
I won't go into the Hitler rubbish again, since I'm rather tired of adressing yet another uninformed opinion. And I'm sure you met a lot of communists. Maybe some reading - books, I know that's a scary concept - would do you some good. Such as what Marx really put at the base of his philosophy. Yes, philosophy, since Marx never claimed to be anything else than a philosopher presenting an ideal.