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Woocfot asks: Tell us all about that turning point in your life when it started going downhill. Yeah, that drunken conversation with my dad when he suggested I become a civil servant. Dammit, I could have been an astronaut

(, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:32)
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Bollocks
it is not mere coincidence that every time communism has be tried on a large scale that it results in lots of people dying. IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:02, 2 replies)
It's only been attempted once in a method not derived from Bolshevism.
That was the Spanish POUM. They did kill people, but there was a civil war on at the time, so that's to be expected. The POUM were wiped out by Stalinists.
Allende's government in Chile had a non Leninist communist party as the largest group in parliament, but they were swiftgly deposed by the CIA, and replaced with the cuddly Pinochet.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:10, closed)
This isn't particularly funny,
but it's more interesting than Albert's mortgage.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:26, closed)
It directly ties in with my mortgage.
The catastrophic failure of every single attempt at a pure socialist government has allowed capitalism to flourish - and my portfolio with it.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:46, closed)
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 17:03, closed)
there's been quite a few examples of non violent communism
bologna had communist mayors for 50 years
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 16:11, closed)
Well done for posting something completely irrelevant.

(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 0:04, closed)
you're welcome

(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 20:55, closed)
There are, arguably, lots of examples of large-scale communism without people dying.
Public libraries and universal healthcare for example.

Obviously they don't call themselves communist, but if you define 'communism' as something like 'free and equal distribution of resources', then they're communist.
(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 1:24, closed)
Ownership of the means of production
isn't quite the same as letting people borrow stuff.
Just saying, like.
(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 7:54, closed)
All right then
how about the roads and highways? Sewer and water systems? Police and fire departments?

The problem with communism as a form of government is that it overlooks laziness and greed in humans. The people who initially form the communist government are fine, but what of their grandchildren who were born into it and didn't have a say in matters? They're the ones who ultimately lose as it all goes to shit.
(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:22, closed)
I have no idea why you are replying
But yes, communism is bollocks.
(, Wed 6 Mar 2013, 16:26, closed)
Mainly coz I was bored.
And because I know for a fact that we have at least one Marxist among us and was seeing if he happened to read this.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 4:35, closed)

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