#2

Is that why thousands of USans flee to Cuba on innertubes each year?

It's so weird. Hundreds of thousands of Spanish speakers are sneaking into the US. You would think Cuba would be a more idyllic place to sneak in to.

A history of communism?

Hmm.

Are kindergartners going to be educated in all dead religions, or just this one?

Outside of Russia and Portland, is communism even a thing anymore?

"Communism is not dead nor is it a religion. It is an ideology. Communism is based in the concept of the abolition of all religions."

Communism was a religion based on the abolition of competing religions. Marxism and Christianity could have actually been closely aligned. Marx was just not willing to share the stage with another god.

And you think communism is still a thing? I mean, outside of history?

I've seen left-wing wierdos in Portland flying the hammer and sickle, as well as Russian invaders in Ukraine, but I don't think anyone views communism as a legitimate economic system or form of government anymore. Do you disagree?

#22

I grew up just outside of Portland. During the BLM protests, Portland was the only city I saw where protesters were carrying the hammer and sickle. Maybe there were other cities where the commie battle flag was raised equally high...I just missed it.

"Communism is still the official ideology of the ruling parties of China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam. And to a lesser extent, North Korea."

Communism was always an abstract idea. In fact, the whole basis of communism is that, in a post-socialist society. Content workers would not need the government to manage the economy. It would occur as the natural product of happy workers giving each according to ability and taking according to need.

There is no question that China's communist party still runs the show, but they may be further away from communism than we are here in the west.

"If Capitalism was achieving their goals, they wouldn't be advocating for a different economic paradigm."

Is that what they're doing? Saying that the Soviet Union would have provided a better economic outcome for them?

#26

You'll need to walk me through that one. Free markets are what occurs when individuals are permitted to interact with each other for their own self-interest. And it works.

Technically, the same conditions that allow for the free market would also support communism. The problem is that communism requires sacrifices that don't exist in the free market. Which is why humanity has favored free markets. Human nature was the one thing that Marxism couldn't overcome. Which is why all the "communist" countries found themselves stagnant in the socialist stage of that evolution, preferring instead to adopt more free market principles.