What is your opinion about Communism?

[Edwardo Piet]

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.

Oh, have you not seen the movie Animal Farm? That movie, which I recommended, is very anti-communism.

It's a great movie for kids too, of course, since it involves talking cartoon animals, and it basically teaches the lesson that if you try to give no one power then the strong but nasty people (or animals in the cartoon) push themselves into power through force. Trying too hard to make a perfectly equal society can actually lead to extreme inequality and tyranny.

It's one of the best movies I've ever seen. And I first saw it when I was about 10.