not exactly opposing - confusion

[la chamaca]

ok, well i am not opposing anything, i am just trying to get clarification. to begin with, just out of curiosity may i have an example where communism has actuaaly worked? i have seen a trend of new communists and i ask why they believe in that and they say because nothing else has worked. and the only country anywhere near getting an idea of how communism is good is china, but even that is invalid because correct me if im wrong but i do not believe china has ever even begin to know what freedom is. now secondly the reason i don't necessarily agree with communism could be because i don't fully understand all that it consists of. my connotation of communsim is basically the gov't owns everything that normally you would own. it is a collective society but it seems to have a dictatorship. and that always baffled me because with power comes greed. so how it is it positive? please help me fully understand. thatnks and have an awesome day!!!:P

[革命者]

Quote: from la chamaca on 11:41 pm on May 6, 2003
ok, well i am not opposing anything, i am just trying to get clarification. to begin with, just out of curiosity may i have an example where communism has actuaaly worked? i have seen a trend of new communists and i ask why they believe in that and they say because nothing else has worked. and the only country anywhere near getting an idea of how communism is good is china, but even that is invalid because correct me if im wrong but i do not believe china has ever even begin to know what freedom is. now secondly the reason i don't necessarily agree with communism could be because i don't fully understand all that it consists of. my connotation of communsim is basically the gov't owns everything that normally you would own. it is a collective society but it seems to have a dictatorship. and that always baffled me because with power comes greed. so how it is it positive? please help me fully understand. thatnks and have an awesome day!!!:P NO, it's just the government owning everything and a bit more what you probably wouldn't ever own for yourself, and because popular power is a part of communism you own more you ever would've(or at least the majority would've) owned for themselves.

of course it's more complicated than that but it is a vital point.

[Goldfinger]

The final step of communism is yet to be developed from a capitalist society, but it has existed in many Native American societies, and the tribal people in the Arab desert have been practicing it for centuries.

And I don't want to hear any "If they're so smart, howcome they're dead" kinda bullshit from any of you, as some communist societies exist this very day, struggling to get their rights as people from oppressive regimes and "civilizations" around the world.

[Goldfinger]

Anyway, welcome to the forums.