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Name: Anonymous 2007-02-13 23:41

Why do people in the U.S. think communism is so horrible?

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-17 15:53

>>74
"Contrary to your fantasy world, democracy and communism are both human controlled systems and therefore are under the effects of both the evil and stupidity of humans. Niether are perfect (how many times do I have to say this?) yet evil and stupidity decrease in correlation to how democratic a country is, not how communist a country is."
So how do you you define how democratic a country is? The scale is subjective, eg i for one would say that a country like Sweden is more democratic than the US since it has an higher election participation level while a market liberal would say vice versa because of the tax levels of sweden. Evil and stupidity seems to be more abound in the US though. I have no idea how a country can be more or less communist, maybe you mean socialist? I have no way od deducing the validity of your claim that stupidity and evil does not decrease with increased levels of communism or socialism.

"The humans in charge of democracy are the people and the representatives they vote in all are held together by human rights which give people an easy guide to see how to prevent tyrants from getting into power. The representatives are sometimes corrupt, but regardless democracy reduces corruption considerably by putting it in law and propoganda that citizens are permitted to criticise their representatives."
I know this is the theory and i feel that totalitarian countries often have high levels of corruption (there are exceptions i believe). Rights and democracy does nothing to curb imperialism, which is the greatest evil this globe has seen. Domestic harmony means nothing if your countrys bombs are being dropped on children. With that i mean that i accept that democracy is a good tool to curb tyranny, but that it does not solve more basic problems. But i never meant to mean that communist societies cant be democratic, i actually believe it is a prerequisite.
Marx wrote i bit more than about the dictatorship of the proletariat. I suggest you read it. 

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