this kid is woke

why do you have an italian flag

he probably just learned about communism that day in his 6th grade history class and thought it sounded like a good idea

i thought communism was pretty great when i was like a freshman in highschool so im not gonna rail him

I for one am very much looking forward to living in this Comrade's Communist State in 12 years

Never lived there, but i spent a lot of time over there during summer break to visit the family that lives over. Speak it every day cause my mother and idk, wanted to be original. Second home i guess. I didn't think it was that big of a deal lol

if you listen to drunk JDuff, you'd quickly find why.

Communism is kind of an utopia. I don't think the ideology is really bad (especially in the eyes of a kid it probably sounds great) and you're quite overreacting.

Communism is great on paper, and it should sound like a great idea the first time you hear about it. It's only by looking at actual communist governments (which this kid probably hasn't done yet) that was recognize the fatal flaw: it's a power vacuum, and true communism as Marx imagined never lasts.

Dude burps mid sentence and doesnt miss a beat god damn

Communism is pretty rad if you really like riding bicycles.

https://m.imgur.com/3hchabE?r

"if i ever started a country with a communist government wink wink wait 12 years"
my man has the plans ready 2029 gonna be lit

if i were his classmate and he was spewing this stuff i'd be like "get out of my way i just wantmy chicken nuggets"

this kids gonna be friends with all of his english professors in college

https://twitter.com/AROD/status/846922527628668929

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8DfjDwVwAAuCNK.jpg

yeah they taught us that in school, did you not take gay socialism 101?

This child is the future.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ed/b1/97/edb19763a8eea3621d540b6a1b5a4e2c.jpg

Alright something I've been wondering for awhile.

Could you rank these communists

Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao

i rank them all equally as a true communist would

sceneable is ahead of his time. also watch the bookshelf vid ur being rused

Hmm... That's a somewhat complex question and I would probably go this way if I had to:

Marx is obviously first - despite a few trends that he missed due to the world of his day, and his inattention to practical affairs.

Lenin is #2 because he fleshed out Marx's analysis of the state, and how it functions, as well as how Marxian groups should behave in response.

Stalin is easily above Trotsky - as most of what Trotsky *actually* wanted for the USSR was far more negative than most of what Stalin actually did. Trotsky benefits somewhat by having not actually done all that much, once state power was achieved, besides being exiled - and then complaining a lot about it.

Then Mao - if nothing else than for his penchant for not doing what Stalin wanted him to do - and carving a path for independent action (from Moscow). Also his writing on how to execute a guerilla war is still a standard textbook throughout the world (including the US) so that's gotta count for something.

Lastly Trotsky - as I mentioned previously, most of what he actually wanted for the USSR was demonstrably worse than what Stalin actually did - there's a reason Stalin won out in the end despite being a non-charismatic and often disagreeable fellow. In spite of Trotsky's contributions, militarily, during the revolution.

Communism seems like a pretty good idea if you don't think about it for too long

I mean, IMO communism already passes the first and most important test that a lot of other systems of government fail - it's about the people, fundamentally. It's about ensuring that everyone lives as good a life as possible. Does it actually accomplish that? No, it doesn't seem to. Not any form of it that we've tried. But it intends to, and that makes it better than something like fascism, which is entirely about the state, or monarchies or oligarchies or plutocracies, which are entirely about the richest members of society.

Communism is bad on paper it assumes a utopia where everyone works just as hard and no one has aspirations of grandeur. If humans were like this and all worked just as hard and were just as valuable to society it would be great. The reason communism and socialism is favored so much more heavily by young people rather than old is because it's "free stuff" and the older people have generally already worked for their stuff. You don't deserve stuff simply for existing and people who contribute more to society should be rewarded.

https://youtu.be/dqB-EMqpsUA?t=30

But wasn't Marx just a socialist? Communism was the extreme form of it carried out when Stalin took power, because Lenin could never get it into full effect. To me, Socialism, is a more logistical version of Communism. Or at least that's what it seemed like in past societies.

And if you want to count them as the same thing, the Sweden would technically be a Communist state, since their government is a refined version of socialism if im not mistaken.

http://i.imgur.com/DszRoCe.png

communism shares more with fascism than capitalism

that's what "on paper it looks great" means