2nd coming of Communism?

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

So right now, Cuba is the only true nation that is trying to make communism work, and it has an embargo against it. And, Venezuela just elected a socialist president. The USSR fell like 14 years ago. Do you think that more countries will start to become communist again and when? Will we have learned from the mistakes that were made before? I've heard that something like almost 70% of russians want the USSR back and 70% of east germans want communism back. Is communism 'popular' right now? I live in the USA and i would have to saay its not since a lot of the people around me are conservative republican christians

[Fidelbrand]

I am not too sure on whether Cuba is trying hard to make communism work, since it declared itself as running a well-planned economy at the outset, but now walking backwards with capitalist tourism towards capitalism. I wouldn't severely blame Cuba's move, since globalizaing capitalism is like a spectre hovering and influencing the world with capitalism, and if you don't fall prey to its globalizing operations, tradegies can occur, but still, cuba doesn't seem to stand strong to uphold its socialist ideals (personal opinion)

I guess countries which experience the terrors of capitalism will rationally realise and feel a need for some leftist future. Also, there is a hell lot of people who are politically agnostic & enjoying capitalism. Propaganda is still needed to instil our words to them and this might take some time. Personally, I think people don't fucking gave a damn about income disparities and they all seem to have a disdain for it and claim that this "difference" is ordaned by nature. Nature........ maybe when capitalism is wrecking the nature, our habitat, to a disasterous extent in enviromental terms, will then it be the time for those people to say "Oh! We need to do something before it's too late!" , when it is already too late~ =_=..

[Hiero]

am not too sure on whether Cuba is trying hard to make communism work, since it declared itself as running a well-planned economy at the outset, but now walking backwards with capitalist tourism towards capitalism


The tourist industry is still state owned.

[Fidelbrand]

Originally posted by comrade [email protected] 29 2004, 06:40 PM

The tourist industry is still state owned.
but doesn't it agitate a rise in income disparities & the concept of materialistic greed?

[Djehuti]

Originally posted by The wise old [email protected] 29 2004, 05:45 AM
So right now, Cuba is the only true nation that is trying to make communism work, and it has an embargo against it. And, Venezuela just elected a socialist president. The USSR fell like 14 years ago. Do you think that more countries will start to become communist again and when? Will we have learned from the mistakes that were made before? I've heard that something like almost 70% of russians want the USSR back and 70% of east germans want communism back. Is communism 'popular' right now? I live in the USA and i would have to saay its not since a lot of the people around me are conservative republican christians
Cuba is not "trying to make communism work" (whatever that means), and neither the USSR or East Germany ever where communist. Communism is no ideology, no doctrine and no form of goverment.

To see if communism is "popular"? Dont look at the elections, dont ask people what they thing. Instead, study of the working class acts.

[Louis Pio]

Communism is no ideology

You just made the word ideology loose all meaning. Of course communism is an ideology. What else should it be?