What is your opinion about Communism?

[Pat Mustard]

Are you a communist? What are you opinions about communism?

Note: I mean the Marxist-Leninist ideology to be more specific.

I would contend that the ideology known as Leninism has little to no resemblence to communism as Marx and Engels envisaged, apart from the words used. It was simply straightforward toltalitarianism cloaked in the colours of proletarian liberation.

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 My opinion on Communism is that it is way worse than Capitalism and we don't need it.

 I mean, look at what happened to the Soviet Union back in the 20th century.

 We need Socialism, not Capitalism or Communism.

Yo do realise that communism was simply a means proposed by Marx and Engels to ensure the implementation of socialism?

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If Communism has ever worked, I don't know where. It seems to always go along with Totalitarianism.

To be honest it hasn't been tried in practise. The day Russian communism died was the day the Bolsheviks marginalised the Soviets. And every "communist" regime after that followed the Russian lead.

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There are certainly HUGE flaws with democracy (as demonstrated by Brexit and Trump winning), but it's far better than every other form of government that has been tried so far.

I would contend that the UK and US are about as democratic as the USSR was communist. Both cloak themselves in the language of deomcracy, but use the substantial forms of oligarchical political systems (the US is a flat out replication of the Roman republic in the new world, just found a new way to give the patrician vote the most weight).