Vilageidiotx

Have you ever changed your mind about one of those big issues?

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If that was such a good first impression for you I'll try the same topic the next time I go to a party...

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I'd already made an account but apart from that, pretty much. I'm a pedantic arsehole.

@Vilageidiotx

If we're being pure in our examples:
Paris Commune 1871
Free Territories of Ukraine 1918-21
Catalonia 1936-39
Rojava 2012-present

@ACPM

Fair point. I answered with something of a dull knife there. The one thing that can be said about those societies, the same with Lenin and Mao in those early years, is that those were/are societies in crisis (all of them in that case being war). People cooperate fairly well in difficult conditions. I'd agree they prove actual communism is doable, but we've yet to see how it can be extended past a crisis and into everyday. Those were crushed, but Mao and Lenin were allowed to continue, and it didn't a decade for either of them to abandoned communism for state capitalism.

I wouldn't disagree with your analysis but I think when most sane people mean free market economics they refer to the state not being involved in any subsidies/tarrifs rather than simply not enforcing private property which would lead to the destruction of the system.

Well yeh, the An-Cap dream is pretty poorly thought out too, but I'm even talking about a law-protected capitalism that doesn't have any subsidies or tariffs. Whereas the an-cap world would collapse and revert to right of conquest, a lawful economy that has no government involvement in the economy would see bubbles rising up all the time, popping, and descending into depressions. Capitalism is something like hitching you carriage to tigers I suppose; the less you try to control them the more they'll run amok, because you might want them to drive your economy carriage, but they don't care about that, they want to run around making quick money from mauling people. Takes some control by the driver to keep them mauling the least amount of people possible while still moving forward.

Your computer is from capitalism!

@Keyguyperson

Your computer is from generations of government subsidies for the tech industry during the cold war. Woz and Gates didn't invent the computer, they took things that IBM had developed under government contract and made them publicly merchandizable. The internet pretty much worked out the same way - Pentagon invention that was first offered to universities, and then made public. So when you thank somebody for being able to post in this forum, don't thank capitalism; thank the United States Military.

Have you ever changed your mind about one of those big issues?

I'm picturing an overweight man with a poorly kept beard, listening to The Internationale on his iPod while wearing nothing but a Che Guvera shirt (manufactured in Bangladesh).

@The Nexerus

that is what i am picturing too, but only because that is what i am always picturing.

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Free markets = free people.

Fuckin' fight me, m8

@Byrd Man

ur mom is a free market

I wrote two more pages of post in which a guy rolls down a quarry's slopped mouth.

@Dinh AaronMk

Aaron's Post

Wang fell down the hill. He tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled.

Then he hit the bottom and hopped back up and brushed himself off.

Jesus fuck you shits, the memes are getting a bit out of hand.

@Wilted Rose

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I went out to look for one of the may-mays this guy would post, couldn't find it, but got the version of the meem that Evan would like.

@Dinh AaronMk

i should probably be doing something productive right now.

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Thanks to one person in a Skype chat I could probably find a few anti-communist memes.

@Dinh AaronMk

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@Space Communist

since nobody posts we should turn PoW into a communism meme thread now

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True, though in all fairness the actor's life has always been shitty since the dawn of man.

I would add "politician" to that list of careers with futures and good pay, but considering that the rise of the proletariat is inevitable, I don't think that career choice has much of a good future ;)

@Space Communist

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If it makes you feel better there isn't really such thing as a career with good pay or a future anymore.

except maybe meth or having rich parents

got me right in the feels

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I think Tim Curry owned that part. Never saw the stage show though, so can't make the comparison.