communism

“Hands off” economies include forms of capitalism such as Laissez-faire capitalism as well as libertarianism, where the government plays no role in the regulation of the actions of market entities including corporations as well as no way to prevent or remedy market failures. There are many flaws...

I'm not sure if this came up in another thread at the time of publication, but a January 2007 article by former Romanian spymaster Ion Mihai Pacepa gives a fascinating, largely first-hand account of what the author calls the KGB's "super-secret plan for destroying the Vatican's moral authority...

With Hugo Chavez's most recent electoral victory, comparisons between Fidel Castro and Chavez abound. Granted, they're both socialist/communist Latin American leaders, and they both staged coups (one successful and one failed), but how much do they really have in common? One was elected, and one...

The 90% of the World thread's break off into estate tax and wealth got me thinking about where people stand on the above. My thinking is along these lines. The human desire is not to work but to play. In order to get people to work, we must pay them. In order to get people to fill necessary...

Consider that communism is a government run by the State. You work, or else. They pay you. Those who are special get preferential treatment...aditional education, advancement and better pay. Can't one say the same thing regarding a country largely dominated by an empire such as Wal-Mart? So...

According to the Mike McMannus editorial in this Sundays paper, they should be. He is a conservative editorialist. In the same editorial section, the question of the week, to us readers, asks us what we think of the Pope's accomplishments. My 71 year old next door neighbor and I then discussed...

"You and your pinko Commie cosines..." or "Communism: Still Evil?" Today, inside the campus was the LaRouchies whom, when one tried to talk to me, I halfway flipped off before remembering I was in L.A. and Bostonian rudeness may be met with shooting. Off the campus was a table set up by the...

In the Times of London I was wondering when we were going to get a new communism for our age. I have to admit, of all the things I thought might be the new communism, I never expected it to be liberal market principles. I was baffled as to why a guy like Le Pen could place second in...

How do you amass a fortune of approximately $550 million in an impoverished communist nation in the Caribbean? Link. Meanwhile, the rest of Cuba is so poor that food is rationed. But at least Cubans aren't being exploited by wealthy capitalists.

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Gorby had the lead role, not Gipper Ronnie was just there to mop up the leftovers after Gorby did the job.

OK so it's a stereotype, but are there really any Commie faggots? Whatever may be 'left' these days, no Communist regime in power ever had the slightest toleration for homosexuality. If you are gay, where would you rather live? Cuba where you will be committed to an insane asylum and...

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America's heroic defense of South Vietnam stopped the spread of communism to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand . To see where I got this information from, see this page:http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html What you will find on this page will totally change the way you...

Lets face it, both have high ideals, but both belong in fairyland.

Why do communists often like affirmative action? From what I know of communism, it is not a principal of communism to reduce poverty among an ethnic group or race by increasing employment among it and increasing unemployment among another ethnic group or race. I thought communists wanted...

I see many parallels between Christianity and Communism, Jesus and Marx. When you look at it Jesus, if there was such a person, he was a social revolutionary. I contend that the Biblical Jesus at least represented a movement and a group of people, if not an actual individual. So, what was the...

There are many here who seem to believe that communism is dead. While it's true that the USSR fell apart, and the wall came down, it's also true that all the old communists did not suddenly evaporate into thin air. Although communism is an utterly bankrupt philosophy, there are still many...