10-27-2011, 05:57 AM
(10-26-2011, 11:48 PM)Jester Wrote: [quote='FireIceTalon' pid='190752' dateline='1319669038']
I do not object to your Marxism. Want to claim you're a different kind of Communist? Feel free. Want to claim that there are ways of making Marxism work without recourse to violence and oppression? Claim away. Those claims at least are coherent and not ahistorical nonsense.
-Jester
I am disappointed you come with this remark yesterday.
I mean think about it instead of following the general idea among the public.
When did communism as we know it and extreme free market capitalism start?
Communism maybe around 1900 and extreme free market capitalism during Reagan? or after WW2?
Communist societies fell some 25 to 20 years ago and at this moment it is becoming clear that extreme free market economy is not working.
And just as FIT says, you should make an honest comparison between communism and capitalism, not between capitalism and dictatorship of course because then the answer is simple.
The fact that it is extremely difficult to have a democratic communist society is of course very true, but that is another thing.
Anyway for me it is clear that you have to go somewhere in the middle. A social(ist) society with good protection of the weak but with a free market and of course democratic. (But I guess you also agree with me on this Jester)