Non Capitalist Government

If socialism (and I don't mean that national socialist crap) were on here, there would be no contest. Sometimes I think the successful socialist model you see in parts of Canada could actually be preferable to Capitalism.

However, since it's not, I chose Communism. I guess there's always the chance that I could turn out to be one of the people making a living off of abusing such a turd-bucket system.

 

I don't really get the point of this poll : if communism wins over the other 2 choices, would that mean that for the majority of us it is less bad than the other political systems. Communism, together with nazism, was/is (still unfortunately in some countries) the most cruel type of government. Here is the legacy of communism : goulags (= concentration camps), permanent monitoring of its citizens (in Poland, my dad was jailed for his different political views at the time of the Martial Law in the early 80's, and it's because this sh*tty communism that my parents left Poland when I was 2  y.o.) and there was a secret police (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa) that kept shutting up any opposition (a friend of my dad's was killed by them, the bishop Popieluszko was tortured and slaughtered) and a sad episode in polish history is the bloody repression of the workers who claimed better living conditions in Poznan in 1956 cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_1956_protests, massive deportations of populations, massive massacre of polish army officers in Katyn - Poland, genocides in Ukraine by starvation of the population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor and Cambodia (1,5 billion killed).

 

One should be really living in a bubble to ignore all these atrocities and all the disasters caused by communist dictatorships.

I don't really see why dictatorship is separated from communism, both work often hand in hand (Cuba, Russia, Romania at the time of Ceaucescu, North Corea, Cambodia).

 

Someone who claims communism would be a good alternative to capitalism should go and live in the current Communist countries : Cuba, North Corea or devise a time machine and wander through Russia, Poland, Cambodia, Romania... 

 

I don't know why "anarchy" is featured here as we don't have a single country to base an analysis for comparison with capitalism-lead countries.

 

Another thing that is beyond me, is how Mr Ernesto Gueverra is worshipped. This guy was an assassin and wanted to spread the communism virus in latine America. I know that communist ideas are very popular among youngsters, especially those living in comfortable democracies, but praise someone who has blood on his hands is shocking (he is responsible for the execution of a hundred of police and army officers of the Batista regimen, guilty for "war crimes" (!) and created "working and rehabilitation" camps. 

 

 

communism =  

Yes, and don't forget the famous 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet troops and tanks, occupation that is the result of failed negotiation to keep a strong stalinist regimen in this country. In fact, Dubcek wanted to give another turn to his county's communism, a more human face by injecting some liberalism in the harsh socialism. In Poland, a philosoph from my birth city (Przemysl), Ryszard Siwiec, went to Warsaw and self-immolated himself as a sign of protest towards the decision of the Russians. 60 were killed during this dark episode of czechoslovakian history.

 

Hitler called himself a socialist, and he hated the commies/Stalin.

I think it's pretty clear that neither the USSR nor the National Socialist Party were actually socialist. At least not in practice.

 

And anarchy as opposed to hierarchy, in the sense that all the rulers have been chosen by the people. That's also a way to define anarchy: in law school I had a professor who was advocating that kind of anarchy. In most countries, even the democratic ones, there are still people with power who haven't been elected by the people, like kings and queens, who do not always have a strictly symbolic function.

 

But I prefer the friendly dictator. Not that I know of any such man (or woman) in recent and less recent history, but hypothetically