I say. Solo, why Communism?

[Invictus_88]

Hm.

Whyever? It's never struck me as the way forward for any nation, least of all ours.

Why the support?  

[and_solo_said]

Not for our nation, certainly, but for one that is developing or one that somehow materialised in the ether I think it is a good way to bring about a fair minded system of government without a few thousand years of monarchy and war.

Perhaps for this country if we manage to go quite far down the pan.  

[Invictus_88]

Ah, well fair enough. Perhaps you're right.

my main concern is that communism is generally bad for business, and we live in a world where nations (the top nations, at least) rise and fall on the efficiency of their businesses.  

[Fanghidian]

i have had quite the brush in with communists of late, and to be honest, there ways would never work for any country, unless every country turned communist at the same time, as they wish to abolish money, making it so that we wouldnt be able to trade with other countrys  

[Invictus_88]

Indeed, it's a matter of scale really. Communist societies can only avoid oppression by being very small indeed, and yet anything smaller than the majority of the world will have to make big concessions to incompatible systems.  

[Behatzlacha-S]

Of course, the key idea behind Marxist Communism is that you have no states as such - there is no government. This Communism we're used to is Marxist-Leninism, in which a Communist party dictates the proletariat for their own good, style of thing, which is an ideological corruption in my mind.