How Dead is Communism?

How dead is Communism?

  • Dead and buried, just like slavery, feudalism, and "real" monarchies

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • On its last legs, Cuba's the last country left and when Castro dies it's over

    Votes: 3 7.1%
  • China's just in an "NEP" phase and will revert to "real" Communism in 2049

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • There's still hope, we still have China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's dead but some damn fool could still revive it

    Votes: 19 45.2%
  • It's dead for now but some genius may yet find a way to make it work

    Votes: 9 21.4%
  • Communism is dead until Laura Ingalls Wilder returns to earth and makes it happen

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • What do you mean, dead? Chairman Sam Webb says....

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • It died on Christmas Day 1991. Get over it.

    Votes: 4 9.5%
  • The Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, the Masons, and the Jews have another plot now....

    Votes: 4 9.5%

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As one of the seemingly last believers in a seemingly dying ideology, I'm curious where public opinion is on this? Just how dead is Communism? For definition's sake, I mean Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism or original-form Maoism. Not social democracy or Troskyism.
 

Robert

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Communism still has it's followers because, unlike Nazism, it wasn't a cult of personality. It is seen as offering the false hope of a utopia in exchange for putting a few select people in charge of everything. The problem is that no select group of people know enough to run the lives of millions, yet alone billions of people in the world.
 

Kongzilla

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It don't think it's dead because here in melbourne we're having a Marxism convention or something. It's funny because the last communist power really isn't even communist anymore. Also people are greedy.
 
In a world where there are shades of Fascism arising in places like Greece and Hungary, anything is possible.

That said, it would be one heck of a rebranding job if someone managed to pull it off and a systemic crisis of epic proportions in market democracies to make it possible.
 
Honestly I think the fall of the Soviet Union kind of saved communism, at least intellectually. If you've been on a college campus in the last decade you couldn't tell it was dead.
 
Right now communism is dead. That said I think that over the millions of years that human civilization could last communism will be popular at some point. It won't look anything like 20th century Leninist or Maoist communism but as long as the workers control the means of production it is communism, and that is too attractive an idea for it to be allowed to die.
 
It doesn't seem to be dead, and I like the idea of it, but I hope it does die. Even if there were to be a revolution by completely benevolent and altruistic men, then it would collapse into anarchy.
 
I voted It's dead but some damn fool could still revive it.

But my actual opinion is : It never existed and is utterly impossible within the layed-out framework of how it's supposed to function and be foolproof to any negative influences.

Ergo, just like any other purported cure-alls, utopias and perfect systems. ;)

It was a touching smoke screen for power-hungry speculants and madmen though, just like any other -ism elevated to a mindless totalitarian cult. :mad:
 
Communism != the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, etc.

Communism is currently in a degenerate state. But I wouldn't say it's dead.
 

CalBear

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Belongs in Chat, but since it has an attached poll, we'll just lock it instead.
 
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