Name: Anonymous 2008-01-07 8:37
Communism is stupid. It has repeatedly attempted to abolish the traditional 'pyramid' of society by consistently doing everything it can to retain control at the top to 'protect' communism. But democratically communists could never win, because nobody is going to (and evidently isn't) voting for a regime with such a dreadfully bloody history of oppression ahead of a parliamentary democratic party (even most dodgy ones).
This itself makes communism an impractical idea since, due to its unelectability, it can only be brought to power through additional violence. Additionally, communism itself was based on a series of reactionary values dating all the way back to industrialising Europe in the revolutions of 1848 and a stupid (and evidently wrong) concept of 'class struggle'.
'Class Struggle' was central to the Communist cause. Without it, communism would no longer be 'inevitable', nor even necessary if the middle class could grow. Marx supposed that the ruling Imperial classes would attempt to crush the middle class 'bourgeousie' (itself an outdated concept, an overgrowth of the beaurecracy of the middle ages in which literally 'middle-men' in towns would acquire wealth by professional carreers as merchants and so on) which represented a threat to their cause. The middle-class, along with the disaffected proletariat would then attempt to overthrow the ruling classes. But that's never enough to allow the proletariat to gain power since the middle classes gain power instead. Which puts the proles back to the bottom of the pyramid.
The communists, obviously, planned to change all that by launching a proletariat revolution. This was supposed to occur in developed economies. But this did not occur since the middle class grew in these and the middle class was satisfied by parliamentary democracy and the basic but fulfilling standards of living they enjoyed.
Communism was thus based on principles as an anti-Imperialist reactionary movement based on 19th century, industrialising societies. This is clearly no longer a relevant political persuasion, so why do communists bother?
The Fabian Society (as an example, hundreds of similar organisations existed) was founded in the 1880s to oversee the implementation of a socialist reformist agenda rather than one forged, rather pointlessly, by incessant bloodshed and political repression.
Communism is a dead cause.
This itself makes communism an impractical idea since, due to its unelectability, it can only be brought to power through additional violence. Additionally, communism itself was based on a series of reactionary values dating all the way back to industrialising Europe in the revolutions of 1848 and a stupid (and evidently wrong) concept of 'class struggle'.
'Class Struggle' was central to the Communist cause. Without it, communism would no longer be 'inevitable', nor even necessary if the middle class could grow. Marx supposed that the ruling Imperial classes would attempt to crush the middle class 'bourgeousie' (itself an outdated concept, an overgrowth of the beaurecracy of the middle ages in which literally 'middle-men' in towns would acquire wealth by professional carreers as merchants and so on) which represented a threat to their cause. The middle-class, along with the disaffected proletariat would then attempt to overthrow the ruling classes. But that's never enough to allow the proletariat to gain power since the middle classes gain power instead. Which puts the proles back to the bottom of the pyramid.
The communists, obviously, planned to change all that by launching a proletariat revolution. This was supposed to occur in developed economies. But this did not occur since the middle class grew in these and the middle class was satisfied by parliamentary democracy and the basic but fulfilling standards of living they enjoyed.
Communism was thus based on principles as an anti-Imperialist reactionary movement based on 19th century, industrialising societies. This is clearly no longer a relevant political persuasion, so why do communists bother?
The Fabian Society (as an example, hundreds of similar organisations existed) was founded in the 1880s to oversee the implementation of a socialist reformist agenda rather than one forged, rather pointlessly, by incessant bloodshed and political repression.
Communism is a dead cause.