Opinion Piece- Communism is A Cancer

[Australian rePublic]

As much as I hate trivially comparing anything to cancer, and only reserve doing so for special instances, communism is a cancer. Under communism, mainland China is suffering from one of the worst cases of poverty, human rights abuses and brutal dictatorships the world has ever seen. Communist China leads the world in oppression and human rights violations. Communist China has only improved since abandoning the communist bullshit and adapting capitalism. But it's still suffering from the skidmarks left behind by communism. "Not real communism", bullshit. Mao tried everything he could to nationalise all industry and nationalise all sustainance farms. If that's not communism, I don't know what is. Mao can go down in history as one of the worst murders in history. Meanwhile, the other three Chinas- Hong Kong, Macau and Tawain are thriving democracies with excellent human rights records. In fact, despite being a city-state, Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest and most influential nations on the planet. What's the difference? Hong Kong has not been shat on by communism. Compare North Korea to South Korea, and I don't even need to tell you the rest... In fact, North Korea is in less of a bad state now that it was during the great famine because they eased up on communism and allowed people to start buisinesses. Russians were very poor and oppressed until the fall of communism. The fact that communist East Germany erected a wall to prevent their citizens from escaping to their capitalist co-patriots in the west should tell you everything you need to know about communism. Everywhere communism was tried, poverty, oppression and human rights violations have ensued. Communism is a cancer, and I don't, for the life of me, understand why anyone champions this disease. What are your thoughts on the matter NSG?

[New-Purple Republic]

Just because China calls themselves communist, doesn't mean they actually are, it's pretty clear they love their state capitalism and much has changed in the last 70 years. Anyways HK and Macau are under the boot of China as they're both Special Administrative Republics. Poor example.

[Australian rePublic]

Just because China calls themselves communist, doesn't mean they actually are, it's pretty clear they love their state capitalism and much has changed in the last 70 years. Anyways HK and Macau are under the boot of China as they're both Special Administrative Republics. Poor example.

Yes, I've already addressed this. China is less terrible now because of capitalism. Under true communism, China was alot worse. Also, whilst Hong Kong and Macau are under China, they are somewhat autonomous. That somewhat autonomy got them where they are today

[SD_Film Artists]

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Just because China calls themselves communist, doesn't mean they actually are

That's true, and I wonder if there's really anywhere which is truly communist as whenever it fails (or becomes capitalist like China) the communists/socialists pull another 'no true Scotsman' fallacy is it wasn't real communism.

[Gikyvernisi]

I'm against communism, but I must say that Marxist communism hasn't been tried and will never be if capitalism makes some reforms to protect the environment.
(I think that if the world is going to die because of American capitalist scepticism and other capitalist factors that deteriorate the environment we will soon see anarchism and communism.)

[Alvecia]

I'm sure there are communists who would say the same about capitalism.

[Maydona]

This is what happens when you get all your information about a certain subject from youtubers/click bait articles, just spewing utter nonsense.

[Grenartia]

Under true communism, China was alot worse.

When was China ever a stateless, moneyless, classless society?

[Legolannd]

you are very right. Communism is cancer.


Death to the Red Menace!

[Hong Kong People]

Not only is communism totally economically unviable, it can never tolerate rule of law, freedom and democracy as the Party controls all assets which can only be achieved by establishing dictatorships. That's why communist countries are shxtholes. In fact, Hong Kong's competitiveness has slipped a lot since the handover to communist China in 1997.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

"Mao tried everything he could to nationalise all industry and nationalise all sustenance farms. If that's not communism, I don't know what is."

You don't know what communism is, then.

[Kubra]

>under communism china is suffering
>Communist China has only improved since abandoning the communist bullshit and adapting capitalism
um

That aside, the thing with North Korea is they more resemble old skool japan with their blut und boden nationalism.

[New haven america]

Under true communism, China was alot worse.

When was China ever a stateless, moneyless, classless society?

Shhhh…

Don't bring logic into the memememes

[Shurdington]

There are plenty of human rights abuses in capitalist countries as well - does that make capitalism a cancer?

[Juristonia]

My thoughts are that you spend a lot of time talking about things you don't actually seem to know much about and expect everyone else to care.

Get a blog.

[Hong Kong People]

There are plenty of human rights abuses in capitalist countries as well - does that make capitalism a cancer?

Do you ever see a communist country who has good human rights record ? On the other hand,I can give lots of example of capitalist countries having excellent human rights record.

[Kubra]

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Just because China calls themselves communist, doesn't mean they actually are

That's true, and I wonder if there's really anywhere which is truly communist as whenever it fails (or becomes capitalist like China) the communists/socialists pull another 'no true Scotsman' fallacy is it wasn't real communism.

We-he-heeeell let's try this stuff then: was the Soviet Union communist in 1923?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

There are plenty of human rights abuses in capitalist countries as well - does that make capitalism a cancer?

Do you ever see a communist country who has good human rights record ? I can give lots of example of capitalist countries having excellent human rights record.

I have not seen a communist country yet.

[Ayro Va]

There are plenty of human rights abuses in capitalist countries as well - does that make capitalism a cancer?

Yes.

[Hong Kong People]

Do you ever see a communist country who has good human rights record ? I can give lots of example of capitalist countries having excellent human rights record.

I have not seen a communist country yet.

Do some research on China's Great Leap Forward movement and China's history of establishing people's commune .Communism was implemented in China back then.See how people suffer on your own. You might probably wake up from your dream of how good a communist society will be.

[Grenartia]

I have not seen a communist country yet.

Do some research on China's Great Leap Forward movement and China's history of establishing people's commune .Communism was implemented in China back then.See how people suffer on your own. You might probably wake up from your dream of how good a communist society will be.

Prove either of those things were actually communism. Pro tip: just because Mao said it was, and just because tankies say it was, doesn't mean it actually was.

[Kubra]

Do some research on China's Great Leap Forward movement and China's history of establishing people's commune .Communism was implemented in China back then.See how people suffer on your own. You might probably wake up from your dream of how good a communist society will be.

Prove either of those things were actually communism. Pro tip: just because Mao said it was, and just because tankies say it was, doesn't mean it actually was.

hot take: Mao never said it was.

[Australian rePublic]

When was China ever a stateless, moneyless, classless society?

Shhhh…

Don't bring logic into the memememes

Okay, close too

[Australian rePublic]

There are plenty of human rights abuses in capitalist countries as well - does that make capitalism a cancer?

Do you ever see a communist country who has good human rights record ? On the other hand,I can give lots of example of capitalist countries having excellent human rights record.

Extreme capitalism is bad. Maybe not a cancer, but bad as communism. The best system is a balance of both systems

Prove either of those things were actually communism. Pro tip: just because Mao said it was, and just because tankies say it was, doesn't mean it actually was.

hot take: Mao never said it was.

If the China Communist Party weren't trying to achieve communism, they would have given themselves a different name

[Kubra]

Do you ever see a communist country who has good human rights record ? On the other hand,I can give lots of example of capitalist countries having excellent human rights record.

Extreme capitalism is bad. Maybe not a cancer, but bad as communism. The best system is a balance of both systems

hot take: Mao never said it was.

If the China Communist Party weren't trying to achieve communism, they would have given themselves a different name

Oh yeah they were trying to achieve communism, and that's the big detail. There's an eschatology at work, usually when it comes to these parties of the eastern model they're expressed as stages. The official CPC line is that they're in the primary stage of socialism, which I take to mean "level 1, still in tutorial village". Whether or not they actually believe that tripe is another thing.