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Post by Kitten on Jul 6, 2004 18:22:01 GMT -5
Communism branches out into teachings of Marx/Engels/Lenin/Stalin, Marxism->Trotskyism and Marxism->Leninism->Maoism.
Marxists believed the society would transform into socialism by means of evolution, while Lenin believed in a revolutionary means of controling the power.
-Following the lead of China under Deng Xiaoping, Vietnam and Laos have moved away from Soviet-style centralized planning in favor of market socialism. The ruling Communist parties of China, Vietnam, and Laos argue that a planned economy is not synonymous to socialism, thus maintaining their rationale for Communist Party-rule-
There are also lots of negative connotations with -communism-, it's perceived as something dangerous by many (close to fascism)
Over all it was supposed to be a utopia, but as its well known, utopias don't last long. Good intentions turned rotten.
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Post by Kitten on Jul 6, 2004 18:29:49 GMT -5
By the way, speaking from experience, the cultural aspects greatly shifted toward the West after the collapse of Soviet Union. Prior to the collapse all that was held back or shown metaphorically to the audience or shown symbolically all of a sudden lost meaning, importance, artestry, naiveness and uniqueness. It was replaced by sex, blood, rape, violence, gore, cussing....well basically what everyone here loves so much. The 80's-90's I consider the "moral/cultural decay" era. I'm not saying it's good or bad...it's just a fact.
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Post by LORDMORNINGSTAR on Jul 22, 2004 16:28:56 GMT -5
Fresh memory, you must be in school. Though I don't disagree. The plight here (america) is that there aren't enough involved in an active way, where government/polotics is envolved. They dangle these dreams before all of us and simple cattle that we are march forward into the slaughter house. Pipe dreams. We the masses have done this to ourselves, truly there has never been hatred or grudges between any race or creed, they have been handed to the poor by the rich. Individuals are easy to deal with "peoples" are not.
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Post by Forsaken on Aug 11, 2004 17:01:07 GMT -5
One thing though, Laos isn't communist. Even though they once were, they're government now rules according to the principles of democratic centralism. Cambodia is also non-communist, even though they once were. They have what's called the Cambodian People's Party and there's a democratic party also.
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Post by awesomebill on Dec 18, 2015 17:40:27 GMT -5
Found this thread whooooaaaaa there darling, you can move on down to Mehico iffin' you want.
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