This poll was born after a debate with my communist friend. I posted it to listology because I got the impression there might be some educated, knowledgeable people able to answer this to get an fairly accurate response to the overall question. So really, enabling you to have your say in this is a compliment. Furthermore, I don't see how lists of what films people have watched this year can be considered useful...
So instead of complaining about what's put on here, stop reading it and post something "useful and relevant" yourself.
Good Capitalism beats bad Communism, and good Communism beats bad Capitalism: it is all in the application. Has there ever been a large scale version of true communism? What i think to be "true" communism is everyone, within a particular social construct--town, city, state, nation, village, etc.--gives up their individual lofty aspirations for what should be the betterment of everyone in the that particular society.
I may have the definition wrong or skewed a bit, but Russia, Cuba, China...were/are not "true" communist states. They were/are fascist dictatorships which force people to follow a certain set of guidelines made by a government that they had no part in choosing or mediating. I am ignorant to any successful or quasi-successful communist states. I am also ignorant of any GREAT capitalist states. There are good/better ones, but picking one of an imperfect set does not seem to be a worthy decision.
I remember when listology was useful and relevant.
This poll was born after a debate with my communist friend. I posted it to listology because I got the impression there might be some educated, knowledgeable people able to answer this to get an fairly accurate response to the overall question. So really, enabling you to have your say in this is a compliment. Furthermore, I don't see how lists of what films people have watched this year can be considered useful...
So instead of complaining about what's put on here, stop reading it and post something "useful and relevant" yourself.
Good Capitalism beats bad Communism, and good Communism beats bad Capitalism: it is all in the application. Has there ever been a large scale version of true communism? What i think to be "true" communism is everyone, within a particular social construct--town, city, state, nation, village, etc.--gives up their individual lofty aspirations for what should be the betterment of everyone in the that particular society.
I may have the definition wrong or skewed a bit, but Russia, Cuba, China...were/are not "true" communist states. They were/are fascist dictatorships which force people to follow a certain set of guidelines made by a government that they had no part in choosing or mediating. I am ignorant to any successful or quasi-successful communist states. I am also ignorant of any GREAT capitalist states. There are good/better ones, but picking one of an imperfect set does not seem to be a worthy decision.