Has Communism Ever Successfully Been Practiced?

[Lee Harvey Oswald]

Well? Has Communism or Socialism ever been successfully been put into practice?

[JazzRemington]

The Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution put anarcho-communism successfuly into practice in both rural and industrial areas. As for Marxist communism, I can't say exactly.

[Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 09:05 PM
The Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution put anarcho-communism successfuly into practice in both rural and industrial areas. As for Marxist communism, I can't say exactly.
So after the Spanish Revolution, were the people happy? Did they live productive lives, and not poor, poverty stricken ones?

[JazzRemington]

not after, sicne they were crushed by three opposing armies: the communists, republicans, and fascists. But during the 3 years that it was being successfully practiced (during a civil war, mind you), production was way up, people were happy, and the sexes were greatly intergrated.

Here are a few links to check out, if you would like more information.

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spaindx.html
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secI8.html

[Lee Harvey Oswald]

Hemm...it seems communism didn't work out so well for 'em.

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/berneri/betrayal.html

[JazzRemington]

Yes, the Spanish anarchists were screwed by the communists a great deal.

[Lee Harvey Oswald]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 09:36 PM
Yes, the Spanish anarchists were screwed by the communists a great deal.
So can we say, then, that Communism didn't really work by the Spanish Revolution?

[JazzRemington]

Again, I don';t know about MARXIST communism, becuase I haven't read anything on it during the Spanish Revolution. But ANARCHIST communism worked successfully until crushed.

[Lee Harvey Oswald]

So you're saying it worked until it failed. Am I getting this right? You're saying something worked...until it didn't?

[enigma2517]

the "communists" you speak of were actually Stalinists. Moscow had her own plans for the fate of the Spainards.

However, I think that the Marxist P.O.U.M. may have stood and fought with the anarchist armies during several conflicts.

Don't confuse corrupt imperialist political organs with overall idealogy.

[JazzRemington]

Originally posted by enigma2517+--> (enigma2517) the "communists" you speak of were actually Stalinists. Moscow had her own plans for the fate of the Spainards.[/b]

That's true, I forgot about that.


Lee Harvey Oswald
So you're saying it worked until it failed. Am I getting this right? You're saying something worked...until it didn't?

It wasn't a flaw in the anarchist theory that made it fail. It was the fact that they were fighting three armies and one of them was backed up by Hitler and Mussolini.

[GoaRedStar]

anarcho communism has never been practiced.

by the way, a marxist is a person that feel that there should be a transition point between capitalism and communism .this transition piont is call socialism.

anarchist feel that a trasition point is not needed


and another thing communism is a stateless society .


Spain had a state during the revolution it was call a republic, this mean that it never had a communist society