What would a true communist society/country look like?

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Post by Jay G » Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:58 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." - 1984
Hey, I recognize that. That's from the Tea Party platform.
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Re: What would a true communist society/country look like?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:37 pm

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
--- Frank Zappa

“Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers".”
-- Thomas Sowell

“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”
-- Adlai Stevenson

“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death”
-- Heinrich Heine

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
- Mao

“Communism is like one big phone company.”
--- Lenny Bruce


“I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.”
-- Omar Torijos Herrera

“I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism”
--- Whittaker Chambers
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Post by Eriku » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:40 pm

I know they don't follow the convential demotivational poster stanzas, but what the heck :D

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Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.

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Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.

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Re: What would a true communist society/country look like?

Post by Eriku » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:45 pm

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Hold on now... that's not true of spice racks, cereal selection, etc. ad nauseum.

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