You will own nothing and be happy

[bugsyblue]

Communism is a brilliant idea...as long as it stays as an idea. Communism in real life does not work because those down there (us) have nowt and those running the show have everything. At least with Capitalism you have a choice.

Haven't you just described dictatorship/totalitarianism? Communism, as a socio-political theory, is the opposite of what you described. Of course it doesn't work in practice because power corrupts and humans tend to be greedy. I personally don't think communism works because it's built on the theory that we are all equal which sadly I don't think is true. However, Humans should all have universal fundamental rights to education, health care, safety, fair living standards etc. That I believe in. And that's what's being currently eroded.

We definitely need a new version of capitalism that has social and environmental conscience at its heart.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

How do you work out where you live? Is it a Mad Max type dystopia?

Do you need to pay for food, bills etc?

If not, there’s no need to work and no need to businesses to make money.

This system works for ants.

It wouldn’t for humans as we’re selfish cunts.

Lockdown compliance showed we like to be told what to do. A very small number of people have got richer than Croesus since the banking collapse, following a series of ‘disasters‘, meanwhile Joe Public is lurching from one crisis to the next. Governments are busy telling their populations how they’ve saved them from covid and we’ve now got a new PM being lauded for capping our energy bills at more than double what they were last year, by saving them from being 4 times as big, as threatened. All because the ‘regulator’ moved the price cap from annual, to 6 monthly, to quarterly.
I’m not by any means convinced there’s any grand conspiracy but there’s no doubt we’re being had over by ruling classes and their muckers.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Lockdown compliance showed we like to be told what to do. A very small number of people have got richer than Croesus since the banking collapse, following a series of ‘disasters‘, meanwhile Joe Public is lurching from one crisis to the next. Governemnt are busy telling their populations how they’ve saved them from covid and we’ve now got a new PM being lauded for capping our energy bills at more than double what they were last year, by saving them from being 4 times as big, as threatened. All because the ‘regulator’ moved the price cap from annual, to 6 monthly, to quarterly.
I’m not by any means convinced there’s any grand conspiracy but there’s no doubt we’re being had over by ruling classes and their muckers.

I think it’s due to capitalism reaching its tipping point. There are no margins to cut now. Workers rights and pay need to be suppressed as much as possible.

We need the social aspect of society back. It’s very much dog eat dog these days and that means things like the NHS are being dismantled for profit.

We need to be more proactive as a country and plan for stuff in advance too.

 

[Rascal]

The fundamental flaw in communism its purest form

The biggest misconception about communism in a nutshell.

I like this thread, it involves words spoke by Lenin that have been wildly misinterpreted. Its late, im off to bed, i will reply anon

 

[Rascal]

Communism is a brilliant idea...as long as it stays as an idea. Communism in real life does not work because those down there (us) have nowt and those running the show have everything. At least with Capitalism you have a choice.

Animal farm was fiction

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

It’s not the day.

 

[Octavian]

Communism is a brilliant idea...as long as it stays as an idea. Communism in real life does not work because those down there (us) have nowt and those running the show have everything. At least with Capitalism you have a choice.

We should treat it’s proponents like we do Nazis.

A murderous bunch of cunts.

 

[mat]

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Excellent post! At what cost? We are living in a world where complete and utter proven liars are telling us to live a life that they would not advise for their own,the people we listen to tell us lies we all rushed home to listen to Boris during the Covid pandemic,he advised us as he wasn’t practising what he preached I can’t punctuate a sentence properly but I have the common sense to know that I shouldn’t believe liars

Very well said Sir.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Animal farm was fiction

But Russia and China aren't