The theme of my blog entry today is communism, and the differences and changes since the end of the cold-war era. I decided to choose this topic after a post I read on an internet forum I post on;
Communism in the 20th century and communism in the 21st is completly different. We are now in a completly new era of time. Things are very different. For example, technology is not like what it was during the cold war. The internet is now widly accessable for instance, and this can be used to our advantage. We also have supercomputers and software which can do things people 20-30 years couldn't have even imagined in their wildest dreams. These new technologys can be of use in everything from planning the economy to giving the people a stronger voice in the government.
Another difference is history. One of the beauties of history is that we are able to use it too our advantage and learn from it. For example, in this case, we're able to look at say, lenin's mistakes and change them for the future. We also know of Stalin's purges, and Mao's great leap forward and can see what happens if everything goes wrong. We now know to write a constitution which holds people's freedoms and rights dear.
Capitalists are notorious for using the fact that communism has been the front of oppression and tyranny in the 20th century yet they fail to realize a great many things. First, communism isn't a totalitarian ideology. In fact, it's not even a political ideology. It's a economic system which, if you understand marx, is supposed to be a worker's democracy. An example of how communists are fighting for freedom and democracy is in Nepal right now. Thanks to mass protests and long years of fighting, the communist party of Nepal were able to turn a feudal system into a democratic parliamentry.
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Another thing capitalists ignore all together is whether the USSR and other Stalinist tyrannies were actually communist. Personally, I don't think it was. I personally side with Left Communists and Neo-Trotskyists (Cliff) on this one in thinking that it was a state-capitalism. By State-capitalism, I mean it was still capitalist but the state controled the means of production as opposed to market. If it were communist, it'd have to have done at least two things. 1st, the people would have to control the economy. For example, the state-planners of the USSR would have to have been seated through at least demarchy if not democracy. This would make it so that when people were starving during the afghanistan war, the teams of state planners 'in office' could've been ousted by referendum. 2nd, it would have to have not engaged in capitalistic activities like having a currency, trading commodities, trading for capital, and etc... with capitalist nations.
I hope you enjoyed my rant, thanks for reading it
Originally Posted On DebatePolitics.com
Tell me, what makes your idea so different from the other people that have tried communism and failed? Out of all the people that have tried communism, they have failed. They've have only been able to go as far as changing the government and economy and after that, they fall. Not one country has had success with communism, not one. So tell me, what makes your idea so different from the millions of others that have tried it and failed?
Communism in the 20th century and communism in the 21st is completly different. We are now in a completly new era of time. Things are very different. For example, technology is not like what it was during the cold war. The internet is now widly accessable for instance, and this can be used to our advantage. We also have supercomputers and software which can do things people 20-30 years couldn't have even imagined in their wildest dreams. These new technologys can be of use in everything from planning the economy to giving the people a stronger voice in the government.
Another difference is history. One of the beauties of history is that we are able to use it too our advantage and learn from it. For example, in this case, we're able to look at say, lenin's mistakes and change them for the future. We also know of Stalin's purges, and Mao's great leap forward and can see what happens if everything goes wrong. We now know to write a constitution which holds people's freedoms and rights dear.
Capitalists are notorious for using the fact that communism has been the front of oppression and tyranny in the 20th century yet they fail to realize a great many things. First, communism isn't a totalitarian ideology. In fact, it's not even a political ideology. It's a economic system which, if you understand marx, is supposed to be a worker's democracy. An example of how communists are fighting for freedom and democracy is in Nepal right now. Thanks to mass protests and long years of fighting, the communist party of Nepal were able to turn a feudal system into a democratic parliamentry.
Another thing capitalists ignore all together is whether the USSR and other Stalinist tyrannies were actually communist. Personally, I don't think it was. I personally side with Left Communists and Neo-Trotskyists (Cliff) on this one in thinking that it was a state-capitalism. By State-capitalism, I mean it was still capitalist but the state controled the means of production as opposed to market. If it were communist, it'd have to have done at least two things. 1st, the people would have to control the economy. For example, the state-planners of the USSR would have to have been seated through at least demarchy if not democracy. This would make it so that when people were starving during the afghanistan war, the teams of state planners 'in office' could've been ousted by referendum. 2nd, it would have to have not engaged in capitalistic activities like having a currency, trading commodities, trading for capital, and etc... with capitalist nations.
I hope you enjoyed my rant, thanks for reading it
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