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SO........what about communism?
 

Tripewriter from KARL Marx's shrine (i'm a communist) on 2001-12-31 23:20 [#00065252]



You thoughts please!!!!!
All input is appreciated, especially if you put a little
reference to jazz or its from baron von picklefoot


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-01 00:02 [#00065263]



Funny thing about Marxian communism is that - Marx spends
all his time proving how bad and
inefficient/alienating/exploitative Capitalism is : BUT
hardly ever discusses what excactly would entail Communism.
He does give rough outlines, but hardly to the extent and
detail he offers of Capitalism/Feudalism and Primitve
Communism.

Marx makes some nice points - to a certain extent Capitalism
is/or definetly has the potential to be exploitative,
alientating [perhaps more so in Marx's day] ... But I think
it is a little premature to jump to the conclusion that
Communism ala Marx is the be all and end all of political
systems -> The problem that Lenin discovered is that, while
in theory it sounds quite nice, there is quite a bit of
difficulty implemting it in practice. Even now I don't think
any country or entity as such would be ready for communism
(if ever there will be). And if one takes into account the
Hegelian dialectic progression- in a way if one were a true
marxist, one should prescribe to Capitalism - as this is the
political system of our current age etc.

Ok think I've blabbed on more than enough. See what you
think -


 

Tripewriter from KARL Marx's shrine (i'm a communist) on 2002-01-01 00:07 [#00065267]



So capatalism? You know capatalism isn't all that bad, but
you have to admit that the best communist leader has to be
Mussolini (facism baby yeah). Admittedly he was a facsist
but he was from Italy, and its kinda cool there, i mean you
cane just be on a scooter saying "ciao" (fucking cool)



 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-01 00:08 [#00065268]



'spose so :)


 

Tripewriter from KARL Marx's shrine (i'm a communist) on 2002-01-01 00:14 [#00065275]



you know it.................facism is like a small gummi
bears, once you pop you can't stop, they're addictive, like
jelly babies on acid. Also i like scooters and saying "ciao"


 

wht from here on 2002-01-01 21:27 [#00065473]



i would like to discuss on this but i can't find the damn
words (english is not my language).

Communism as an idea is great I think but it .... oh fuck
it. ican't speak english so haveaniceday..............


 

Xanatos from NYC on 2002-01-01 21:30 [#00065474]



^^
wht: you were doing really well...give it a shot how else
are you going to learn


 

wht from here on 2002-01-01 22:09 [#00065483]



maybe tomorrow... now i'm tired and cant think really
staight.

EQUALITY should be number 1 on every human beings minds. to
think of others too.


 

E man from Noitac ol on 2002-01-01 22:22 [#00065487]



I, too, think that communism is a good idea that cannot be
put in place at the moment, and I think that it's going to
be hard since humans aren't willing to share and to give the
same to all...
think about that, every system can be the good one if people
are going to be honest and respectful toward each thers...
Ah! utopia...



 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-01 22:28 [#00065493]



The thing with Marxian Communism (as far as I understand) is
that you don't have to sacrifice more than Marxian
Capitalism (so to speak). The whole point of Communism
according to Marx is that we would ALL be better off - no
need to share our stuff!! [in the utopia] In that sense I
guess we would be treated as equals, but not to the extent
of ignoring differences between individuals. Just that under
Communism these differences aren't exploited - amplified
etc. ... ???


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-01 22:31 [#00065495]



A problem with it though, [along with many others] is that
people with a lot of money and power, would prevent this
change .. because while they wouldn't be worse off in
communism (? - in itself) they don't want to give up their
superiority - and their comparative wealth, which would
essentially be redundant under communism. Not that in itself
they would be worse of, but that they don't get the "glory"
or being one of the few ???


 

The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2002-01-02 02:08 [#00065530]



Communisms ideas are good in that they promote equality,
they are bad in that the promote laziness, and power hungry
bitchs are in control, and they prevent communism from
working...


 

Mutant Death Pengwin from Medicine Hat on 2002-01-02 02:12 [#00065531]



absolute power corrupts absolutly


 

tripewrier from a secret sommunist society on 2002-01-02 02:19 [#00065532]



Equality will never ever work out gor the human race, people
are naturally too self absorbed/obssessed/interested. A
lawyer for eg, would feel he was being totally
screwed/fucked if he were getting the same as a janitor (or
something).
"Selfishness is Human nature"
or
"Selflessness is nonexistent"

besides the lawyers are all weasels who need to be
slashed/killed, slick/smooth/coniving, dubious, lying,
greedy fuckwits they are, ANd i would know for i have a pet
weasel and he sued/screwed me for leaving him alone one
night (bastard)


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-02 03:05 [#00065542]



But Marx would say that this doesn't matter - because the
janitor is a janitor because this is where his passion lies
(same as the lawyer - despite justice not needing to be
enforced under the utopia) ... if this is NOT where his
passion lies then he should do somehting else, like paint or
make music etc. [as Marx thinks humans are essentially
creative beings] -

The Lenin Communism failed, because you can't have everyone
laze around and paint and be self sufficient (at least YET)
...


 

neednotknow on 2002-01-02 07:41 [#00065571]



i think we should all live like people live in star trek
next generations. food generators, spaceship, aliens, cool
bald guys, androids, the works.


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-02 08:53 [#00065576]



and don't forget the uniform!! :)


 

wht from here on 2002-01-02 10:38 [#00065584]



yes i agree:
total equality = total utopia


 

Cheap Magnet on 2002-01-02 11:31 [#00065588]



Communism has never been in place, so any talk of it working
will always be mere speculation...Russia had a Socialist
system that couldn't become Communist due to its lack of
external trading opportunities. I personally think human
greed and stupidity will always wreck any system, except a
50 / 50 system which i thought about one day, but i don't
know if it will work due to me not putting it in
practise...alrighty, have a great day :)


 

Taxi on 2002-01-02 12:36 [#00065595]



Many countries practice what is called a
socialist-capitalist system, wherein the taxes are rather
high, but so are the social benifits. Unfortunately, there
are problems in those countries too. Reguardless of how much
the government will support the people in those countries,
the people still bitch about how high the taxes are.

Really, if an entire country were to break down their
political heirarchy, set up a bunch of small comunist
comunities, and only work as a nation for defense porposes,
I have a feeling that might work.

If people were not happy with their leaders, they could
always ellect new ones. I think one of the biggest problems
with the north american democracy thing as it stands right
now, is the populations can't choose to vote out their
leaders when they start to piss them off. Really tho, people
are stupid. They will make themselves happy with any
conservative jackass sitting in the big chair.


 

wizards teeth on 2002-01-02 13:25 [#00065598]




*************IDEA 1**************

I like the concept of cyclical communism.

Each country would be shaped a spiral

In the centre of the spiral would exist a lovely big castle,
as the spriral is followed outwards the quality of house /
car / other materialistic items becomes lower in quality.

Each family spend a month in each of the surroundings until
they reach the end of the spriral in which they have to live
in a cardboard box for a month, then they go back to the
start of the cycle and live like kings for a month.

Everyone is equal, but everyone gets the chance to
experience each level of status.

*************IDEA 2**************

Wizard's Teeth Landmass System

The world as we live in at the moment is split into
landmasses.

I propose each landmass is segregated and given a theme.

The people of the world can choose in which theme they want
to live in:

Landmass 1 - Heroin Land

Landmass 2 - Gay Land

Landmass 3 - Lazy Bastard land

Landmass 4 - Music Land

Landmass 5 - Beastality land

etc ect



 

Earface from Hello Dave? ...Is Dave there? ..Dave, my wife would like to use your toilet on 2002-01-02 17:15 [#00065625]



Korben Dallas:

I like what you have had to say about the problems in
implementing communism. I think that this aspect is
oxymoronic with Marxist theory because his philosophy argued
the fundemental importance of understanding the
historical-material influence of humankind (I think this a
theory of human nature that Marx called 'species being') in
order to bridge the gap between the then present conditions
and the Kantian kingdom of ends. This gap had been
recognised by Hegel as a "bad infinity" (you have to explain
the dialectic to me because I know little about Hegel -
exept that Marx basically turn his thoeries around). Marx's
philosophy come ideology is thus based on the very thing
that it fails at: implementation.
Sometimes I think that the time we live in NOW is the best
to time to implement socialist/communist politics, but, as
someone has already pointed out, the self-indulgent
inherence of capitalism has become so strongly inculcated
into the minds of the public that communism would be wholly
unsuccessful. This too is self contradictory to Marist
theory, because he believed that capitalism is an inevitable
path to communism.

Somebody also pointed out (I think it was Koben Dallas) that
Marx fails to outline communism directly but argues it's
virtues by contrast of capitalism. I think that arguments
from negation like this kind are incredibly fallacious but
are existent in a lot of philosophical reasonning (see
Plato's Theory of the Forms, or Descartes' arguments for the
existence of God).

Sorry, I don't mean to go on.
One more thing.
The thing I like the least about Marx is that he argues
against Human Rights. I hate this aspect of any type of
political/ethical philosophy because, as should be learnt
from the Holocaust, the terror of Stalin, and the attacks on
New York (to name a small few), Human Rights should
fundemental in our ethical reasonning.

Sorry to blab on for so long.


 

sebas on 2002-01-02 17:40 [#00065636]



you people are so fucking dumb. one of you explained that if
a janitor is in fact A JANITOR, this is where his passion
lies...if not he will be something else? what? yeah okay, my
passion in life is to become a janitor! no wait, it's to
become a midnight security guard. sounds really fun! what a
niche! equality will never happen. for example: ugly people.
i think this speaks for itself.


 

Dirty Priest from Denmark on 2002-01-02 19:13 [#00065664]



I like your second idea wizard boy.


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-02 21:52 [#00065714]



Sebas:

The Janitor Example was in relation to the "theoretical"
communist utopia. Where the question of earning ones bread
so to speak is irrelevant. Ofcourse in todays
society/political organization a Janitor (as Marx also
points out) could for arguments sake be more or less forced
to do this job etc. (not enjoy it etc. etc. .. that for marx
IS one of the points to turn to Communism) - what marx
considers a form of exploitation ... hope this helps explain
the janitor remark!!!



 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-02 22:04 [#00065716]



Earface:

Dialectic progression is the type of change/progression that
is seen from Feudalism to Capitalism and supposedly from
Capitalism to Communism.?


 

sebas on 2002-01-03 00:33 [#00065756]



now that the janitor remark has been explained i love all of
you.
Communism = Alright


 

Korben Dallas from _ on 2002-01-03 02:40 [#00065790]



whether the sarcasm was intended or not - i love you too man


 


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