Which 'commie' country?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Of these designated 'communist' countries, if you had to, where would you live and why?

I know many do not think of these even as 'communist' countries and what have you, but this is one of those dumb, hypothetical, 'gun to your head' questions.

[Deicide]

Cuba.. has the nicest weather and the chances of me being tortured and thrown into a slave-labour or ''re-education'' camp is less likely than the other options.

I'd also settle for Hong Kong.

[The Jay]

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[PC LOAD LETTER]

Cuba seems pretty cool

[Manic Impressive]

Laos I've been there before and can speak a couple of phrases people are cool food is good what else do you need

[Princess Luna]

Obamaville, I don't like brightness so the constant dark clouds would be easy on my eyes.

[eyeheartlenin]

None of the above. The only thing I know about Laos is that I seem to remember the US was bombing it while I was in Grad School (and I was opposed to that).

From what I heard from a UN development guy I met while I was selling socialist magazines at a demo in NYC years ago, Vietnam is in the throes of capitalist restoration.

It would appear that Cuba is also undergoing an accelerating capitalist restoration, from what the tendency that I work with has published.

From what I have read, China is already capitalist, and North Korea, according to news reports I have seen, is beginning to experience extreme food shortages again, besides being an utterly nightmarish place, where an omnipotent state regulates every part of everyone's life, kind of an Asian Albanian People's Republic, it would appear.

So none of the options is particularly inviting.

[Railyon]

I want my DDR back

[Nox]

North Korea just for banter

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

I won't leave the US until my part of the revolution is completed.

[Prometeo liberado]

I figure my creditors would never think to look for me in North Korea. So to Asia it is!

[Pretty Flaco]

cigarros cubanos ;)

[NewLeft]

no cambodia?

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I'll just wait for Obama's second term. :)

[lombas]

None of these countries offer a relatively high standard of living to the common footman, so to Cuba or China it is, based on health care, development and opportunities.

Vietnam seems to have become a multinational backyard, Laos I don't know too much about, and the DPRK is just totalitarian paranoia.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Out of these choices, Cuba.

[RedAtheist]

I would pick Cuba. Not that I think Cuba is socialist, it just strikes me as the least oppressive country listed. Plus the weather is pretty nice.

[bricolage]

cuba, obviously.

[seventeethdecember2016]

Deicide is a troll, so don't take anything he says seriously.

lombas and eyeheartlenin gave the best comments.

I myself went with Cuba.

[Ostrinski]

China, I have family there atm.

[eyeheartlenin]

I want my DDR back

I was always intrigued by the DDR, until I saw The Lives of Others, which I think is a great film, which depicted life in the DDR as being bullied by representatives of the state machine. No wonder so many ordinary people risked life and limb to get out. Forgive me for repeating myself, but Stalinist regimes and their cheerleaders in the West, did not do socialism any favors. I remember my German prof, Herr August Q, indicated that people in West Germany rejected socialism precisely because of what they saw in the DDR.

[MarxSchmarx]

no cambodia?

Cambodia is no longer communist - in fact the monarchy has been restored, and is in essence a parliamentary liberal democracy with an increasing emphasis on becoming a gas/petrol state.

[Railyon]

I remember my German prof, Herr August Q, indicated that people in West Germany rejected socialism precisely because of what they saw in the DDR.

There is an awful lot of truth to that. Lots of propaganda being spun out of it, infiltration by secret agents, agent provocateurs, etc are also a huge factor in all this. As Günter Wallraff wrote, the bourgeoisie knew their fate if they didn't smash the student and worker uprisings consciously and regularly throughout the 60s. And to this day the DDR is used as an example of why "people don't want socialism". The propaganda machine was and continues to be successful.

There's lots of nostalgia about the DDR though, but I never had the chance to visit the DDR myself. The primary issue the people of the DDR had with "socialism as practiced by the DDR" is not that it was poor or they didn't have access to certain luxuries, it was the whole Stasi snitch culture. Contemporary smack-talkers of the bourgeois variety emphasize the economic lackluster status of the DDR, but they fail to see that the people weren't unhappy with it just because they had to wait in line for a car...

[ColonelCossack]

Why are all the same threads being started again? Didn't we already have this thread recently? Da fok?

[Lanky Wanker]

Cuba for girls, cigars and weather... I couldn't live in an Asian country like China, Korea or Vietnam.