Sep 13th 2004
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I, myself, am a communist. I believe that the ideals of equality and working selflessly are wonderful. However, I do dissagree with alot of the means, and a bit of the end result, as to the common veiw of what communism should be.
Number one, there can be no revolution of force. Violent overthrow of the current system creates dissent and animosity in those who benefited from it. Any lasting communist system must be founded on peace alone. You must have people who WANT to make the communist system work, slaves and other forced labor is a travesty to what true communism should be.
Number two, ALL people in a country must rise up against the old system. Working-classmen alone cannot do this, even the wealthy must be shown how communism is the greater ideal. They are people too, and we must all be known as equals.
Number three, a communist system should seek to teach, not to conquer. A communist system should influence its neighbors by acting as an example. Show the world that you can prosper in equality. Military expansion is meaningless. A conquered people will despise all you represent, and thus has communism been vilified in the past.
Of course there are no truly communist nations existing in the world today. Each is rife with corruption and tyranny. For this reason, I hold them in lower regard than even the most imperialist of nations, for they sully our ideals and offer the world an abomination of the definition of communism.
Communism isn't some neat, non-conformist thing for rebelious teenagers to latch onto, so they can dream of throwing molotov-cocktails at bank windows. Just another childish adrenaline fix.
Communism requires EXTREME responsibility and effort to achieve. For this reason, I believe that education is the most key factor to the success of communism. We must have a society of philosophers and benevolents, we must have mature and wise people willing to work selflessly and hard for the betterment of all others. That is what Communism is, total selflessness.
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bat Says:
Unfortunately, human beings are not bred for selflessness. We are a deeply selfish breed, fundamentally flawed at the very base of our root existance. Not to say that this is a perfect generalization; there are plenty of higher thinkers in the world, people who realize that chaos and terror aren't good methods to win a nation's affections, and who give themselves fully to the idea of a collective. In that, to accomplish a greater good for our species, as a whole, we must act together, as a whole.
A lot of people just prefer to sit on their asses, though.
I have always thought the basics of Communism were very true to the ideal of a peaceful society, but I tend to rationalize that it is a good theory, but a poor practice, not by those who honestly believe in it, but by those around who seek to exploit it.
And there's the whole deal with certain professions only being followed because it laces one's wallet with more green than flipping burgers at McDick's.
Aiya Kitsune Says:
finally, someone that gets a clue as to what is wrong in this world.
and being a teenager in high school, (*twitches.*) i am surrounded by such people to all sides of me.. i understand cruelty of the world on a different level, too.. due to racism against me.
it isn't pleasant, none of it is.. people as a whole have no sense, most people i know have never even heard the word kind, i am willing to bet.. heh, i see the whole point of communism, only because of how i was raised.. raised to be intellegent, kind, and sharing. so naturally communism would fit well in my mind.. compared the "dog-eat-dog" mind-set the rest of the world is in.. so few realize that we need each others help to survive, instead of just killing each other off.. it makes absolutely no sense, to me, atleast.
ryuuko Says:
On a side note, my father still has one of those hats from the Chinese cultural revolution.
If I could ever just own a chunk of the world, I'd make my own communist nation and you can come live in it :) I really am not a fan of capitalism, and the whole root of it lies in the public education system...they train us from age FIVE to mindlessly obey the greater authority, to compete relentlessly with our comrades for approval, that the only way to get ahead is if you are better than everyone else. Competition itself does futher the progress of society, but only because people believe it's the only way. If people weren't inherantly lazy and selfish, then they would create and work and do great things all on their own.
It's so hard to even think of how to change this...I mean, you can't start by educating the masses, you have to start small, with really young kids, and get to them before the schools grind them down, and then you have to change the schools so they AREN'T constantly grinding kids down (you have to think of how powerful schools and early childhood teachers are when they can completely undo years worth of the parents' upbringings in only a few weeks), then you have to deal with the hardcore conservatives and the whole white-upper/middle-upper-class deal....
I'm too much of a defeatist and a pessimist to think that it could ever actually happen, because I know it'll never happen in my lifetime, and I don't think I'd be able to get enough people to care enough to keep working at it.
Are you ever on AIM anymore??