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#29988
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feelythefeel (3 hours ago) [-]
A while back I found out that my province has a communist party. How common are communist parties? Do any of them even win anything any more?
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valeriya (3 hours ago) [-]
Depends where I'm from (Russia) the communist party is the second largest party both in local and national governments against a ruling party that has the dead voting for them. I'm pretty certain alot of places have communist parties, if or not they're public or on the ballots is a different question.
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amongoeth ONLINE (8 hours ago) [-]
no you have not.
that stuff is way more expensive than www.ww2sale.com/?gclid=CI2bq4-zp7cCFdHMtAodGjMADA
that stuff is way more expensive than www.ww2sale.com/?gclid=CI2bq4-zp7cCFdHMtAodGjMADA
It would be interesting to see Nazi Germany and the USSR go head to head. Had the Red Army remained organised during the initial stages of the invasion, I have a feeling the Red Banner would still have hung over the Reichstag.
Indeed, it was just the little things. The collar insignia, the little red 'sash' in between the breast pockets. Hell, even the breast pockets.
Indeed, it was just the little things. The collar insignia, the little red 'sash' in between the breast pockets. Hell, even the breast pockets.
mostly think communist but some idiots think that the hammer and sickle are "Hitler symbol" I have a couple small badges (I got these while I just generally interested in WW2) and I was showing my friends and then some else said I was a Nazi for having them. soo.... I don't know may or may not be a good idea.
Hitler on one side, Lenin on the other.
Hitler on one side, Lenin on the other.
Had I been able to access my account at the time, I was planning on buying an Iron Cross I found in the Grand Bazaar. Barely scraped enough money to get the Order of the Great Patriotic War medal. The Bazaar's been the only place I've seen Soviet or Nazi medals. Nothing like it in my town.
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amongoeth ONLINE (13 hours ago) [-]
I've always wanted one but need to get some more money together first.
www.ww2sale.com/?gclid=CJvp-fryprcCFUXJtAodXykA-Q
this is a good place.
www.ww2sale.com/?gclid=CJvp-fryprcCFUXJtAodXykA-Q
this is a good place.
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oxan (13 hours ago) [-]
Doesn't mean the Mosin is bad, either. Certainly did a good enough job to mop up the Wehrmacht (no offence intended).
Depends what era we're speaking of. Even during WW1, Russia had pretty boring uniforms. What the Red Army wore during the Great Patriotic War, a bit better. But I'm looking at my second monitor's wallpaper (Victory Day parade) right now, and I definitely have no complaints.
Depends what era we're speaking of. Even during WW1, Russia had pretty boring uniforms. What the Red Army wore during the Great Patriotic War, a bit better. But I'm looking at my second monitor's wallpaper (Victory Day parade) right now, and I definitely have no complaints.
#29895
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feelythefeel (17 hours ago) [-]
Ask the lingering spirit of Stalin given corporeal form anything, comrades.
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medewu (16 hours ago) [-]
Comrade... Stalin...
I have no pride for you who ruined everything
My revolution was doing to stop the bourgeoisie!
I fought the bondage of classes, the proletariat masses!
And Joseph you were supposed to be my right hand man,
But your loyalty shriveled up like your right hand, man!
Our whole future was bright, you let your heart grow dark,
And stopped the greatest revolution!
I have no pride for you who ruined everything
My revolution was doing to stop the bourgeoisie!
I fought the bondage of classes, the proletariat masses!
And Joseph you were supposed to be my right hand man,
But your loyalty shriveled up like your right hand, man!
Our whole future was bright, you let your heart grow dark,
And stopped the greatest revolution!
#29890
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N. Korean citizen (18 hours ago) [-]
These tornadoes are part of a conspiracy by the Obama ad.ministration to distract us from the IRS and Benghazi scandals.
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thechurchchurch (4 hours ago) [-]
urvey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy confirms that residents of states that lean Republican and are most religious donate more of their money to charity, while more secular regions — and areas that tend to vote Democrat — give less.
Read more: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/religion-politics-affect-americans-philanthropy/#ixzz2TxFYhJrN
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
they tend to give more to religious based charities,but the money still goes to help the poor so it doesnt really matter.Did i win?
Read more: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/religion-politics-affect-americans-philanthropy/#ixzz2TxFYhJrN
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
they tend to give more to religious based charities,but the money still goes to help the poor so it doesnt really matter.Did i win?
#29882
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pebar ONLINE (20 hours ago) [-]
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/huge-tornado-levels-oklahoma-city-suburb-killing-dozens/2013/05/20/3cb4a08a-c19d-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_story.html
We need to ban tornadoes in order to protect our children and keep our schools safe.
We need to ban tornadoes in order to protect our children and keep our schools safe.
Anyone else thing the obama DJ 4DM1N is in some deep doodoo with all the slew of scandals and horrible decisions?
#29869
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N. Korean citizen (22 hours ago) [-]
I without was out is funny honey. "Then he to and" said I. Once in the climbed and sang a buzz! "Buzz! I am," said the that door making an eat the Poo.
#29811
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N. Korean citizen (05/20/2013) [-]
What is the true job of a government? To protect and ensure the growth of it's native people, or to protect or ensure the growth of the nation itself?
If <insert fictional nation here> deports homeless/jobless/unskilled native people and brings in quality personnel from another country in and grants them citizenship, is it acceptable to you?
Yes, I know that they can't simply "deport" people to other countries, but for the sake of this question, let's just assume they can.
If <insert fictional nation here> deports homeless/jobless/unskilled native people and brings in quality personnel from another country in and grants them citizenship, is it acceptable to you?
Yes, I know that they can't simply "deport" people to other countries, but for the sake of this question, let's just assume they can.
To help protect, provide, pilot, and progress its people. I think it is both ensuring the growth and protection of its people and the strength and growth of the nation itself. If not both then the other cant prosper.
I don't think its acceptable to myself or the general populace of said nation. There are times where that would be awesome here in america. To "deport" the waste of the nation, the people that only take from the government and give nothing back to society but just more "in the way" people. It would a terrible thing to actually happen due to the lose of humanity in people and to just toss aside fellow citizens like that. But the benefits of getting those people out of said nation would be awesome!
I don't think its acceptable to myself or the general populace of said nation. There are times where that would be awesome here in america. To "deport" the waste of the nation, the people that only take from the government and give nothing back to society but just more "in the way" people. It would a terrible thing to actually happen due to the lose of humanity in people and to just toss aside fellow citizens like that. But the benefits of getting those people out of said nation would be awesome!
#29761
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N. Korean citizen (05/20/2013) [-]
Oxan
why do you think communism is the best type of government?
why do you think communism is the best type of government?
Okay then
Direct democracy is the political organization of communism. Supremacy of workers councils over parliament. Is that what you mean?
If so, it allows for more participation in decision making and empowers people to take control over their own lives. Life is not work, work is not life.
Direct democracy is the political organization of communism. Supremacy of workers councils over parliament. Is that what you mean?
If so, it allows for more participation in decision making and empowers people to take control over their own lives. Life is not work, work is not life.
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N. Korean citizen (05/20/2013) [-]
no.
communism fails because of human nature.
there will never be a true society were everyone shares wealth and everyone is happy.
this is why every communist government ends up as totalitarian.
people need to be forced to be equal.
capitalism works because it allows everything to work on it's own.
people work together by necessity. in order to be successful, you need to provide a service which is in demand.
people who are more successful gain more than others, and why is that such a bad thing?
communism fails because of human nature.
there will never be a true society were everyone shares wealth and everyone is happy.
this is why every communist government ends up as totalitarian.
people need to be forced to be equal.
capitalism works because it allows everything to work on it's own.
people work together by necessity. in order to be successful, you need to provide a service which is in demand.
people who are more successful gain more than others, and why is that such a bad thing?
Yes.
Despite being very discriminatory as to who could participate, Ancient Greece had a form of a direct democracy that was pretty decent.
You just have to realize that with direct democracy, there is a much stronger feeling of regionalism over, say, federalism. Decisions being made in A are not the best for B because A is not B. Direct democracy has worked in the past, and new technological advancements will make it simpler. All representative democracy does is take democracy further away from the people; direct democracy brings it closer. That's all.
Despite being very discriminatory as to who could participate, Ancient Greece had a form of a direct democracy that was pretty decent.
You just have to realize that with direct democracy, there is a much stronger feeling of regionalism over, say, federalism. Decisions being made in A are not the best for B because A is not B. Direct democracy has worked in the past, and new technological advancements will make it simpler. All representative democracy does is take democracy further away from the people; direct democracy brings it closer. That's all.
No. Ancient Greece. Athens, to be specific.
Referendum for every decision? Check. They got everyone into little stadiums and what not and took votes on many different issues. Whatever prevailed, prevailed. No 'true' central authority. Just voting.
It's just that to vote you needed to be male, 30+, etc. Switzerland is not quite like this at all.
Referendum for every decision? Check. They got everyone into little stadiums and what not and took votes on many different issues. Whatever prevailed, prevailed. No 'true' central authority. Just voting.
It's just that to vote you needed to be male, 30+, etc. Switzerland is not quite like this at all.
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valeriya (05/20/2013) [-]
I don't believe peace can exist in a world so divided, I'll take an example close to me, In Georgia you have several regions currently trying to break away, the Georgians don't want it to happen and have tried to go by jingo mode against these breakaway regions, so long as people believe in the ideals of nations and seperating themselves you can't get anywhere, (I know it sounds a bit weird considering I believe in socialism in one country working when the whole world is pretty much capitalist and at your throat the capitalists stand to lose so much)
How about a middle-term? Russia could become an actual federation like it's supposed to be and stop forcing their own "culture" on regions that have always had different cultures as long as everybody follows the law.
Or maybe I'm full of shit and I don't know what I'm talking about because I just have assumptions on how things are in Russia.
Or maybe I'm full of shit and I don't know what I'm talking about because I just have assumptions on how things are in Russia.
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valeriya (05/20/2013) [-]
The idea in the union was basically to erase all cultures and replace them with one soviet culture, best example I can think of off the top of my head was the new soviet man, modern day it's more about decentralizing some more political power to oblasts/states if they start playing up then it goes to war, if war doesn't work you'll probably be left alone but you'll be alone in the world, if you start acting up again you'll be crushed and have a pro-moscow government installed. I've pretty much just described Chechnya.
Damn reply limit again.
"Society's norms and mores, peer pressure, all that. Plus, human nature changes."
Yeah, I guess. I thought of that too after making my comment. Still, I think I'll stick with socialism, although if communism comes out of it, I guess it's alright.
This sounds like something you said already some time ago.
"Society's norms and mores, peer pressure, all that. Plus, human nature changes."
Yeah, I guess. I thought of that too after making my comment. Still, I think I'll stick with socialism, although if communism comes out of it, I guess it's alright.
This sounds like something you said already some time ago.
More or less. Work is still 'work'. When you're working for wages, it's simply to acquire the means of life. Even if the MoP are 'common property', rather than private, alienation remains. That's why market 'socialism' is quite silly.
Marx explains it best:
“Let us review the various factors as seen in our supposition: My work would be a free manifestation of life, hence an enjoyment of life. Presupposing private property, my work is an alienation of life, for I work in order to live, in order to obtain for myself the means of life. My work is not my life.”
Marx explains it best:
“Let us review the various factors as seen in our supposition: My work would be a free manifestation of life, hence an enjoyment of life. Presupposing private property, my work is an alienation of life, for I work in order to live, in order to obtain for myself the means of life. My work is not my life.”
Production under communism would likely become more automated. As arisaka said, under capitalism, automation hurts us; under communism (or socialism), it's our best friend.
When production is mostly automated, a decrease in productivity is unlikely. And now, with humans free to work free of alienation, for their own satisfaction, we'll continually improve production.
But this is all hypothetical. We can't really describe what communism will look like, just like a writer in the 9th Century would never be able to accurately describe capitalism.
When production is mostly automated, a decrease in productivity is unlikely. And now, with humans free to work free of alienation, for their own satisfaction, we'll continually improve production.
But this is all hypothetical. We can't really describe what communism will look like, just like a writer in the 9th Century would never be able to accurately describe capitalism.
It seems very... utopian, but I guess it could be stable without douches. The problem is, there are always douches, and that's why it seems utopian. How would they be stopped from taking too many things and work if they wouldn't want to? I'd be even easier for people to be douches under communism.
Yugoslavia under Tito had a self-managing society and achieved many personal freedoms, most people who really hate him are stalinist albanians, croatian fascists or people who think Yugoslavia is a russian city. About the personality cult, I think he was very critical of personality cults.
Doesn't state capitalist basically mean the state acting as the capitalist? If so, it wasn't exactly state capitalist, the workers mostly managed the factories and shared its profits, there was only a little state planning, maybe.
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valeriya (05/20/2013) [-]
The general idea in theory at least is that the current state is controlled by the bourgeois, once the workers take control of the state that means it's not really "state capitalism" it's more "state acting on behalf of the workers to generate profit for the workers" again in theory...
#29755
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N. Korean citizen (05/20/2013) [-]
something new.
let's talk aboutglobal warming "climate change" and why it's fabricated bullshit.
let's talk about
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repostsrepost (23 hours ago) [-]
US: End of the world hysteria aside, the world's superpower isn't going anywhere.
Britain: former hegemon turned US lapdog, but still plays an important role
Germany:Backbone of the Eurozone. Held back by the EU and post WW2 shit
Japan: Most advanced country in Asia. Time to scrap the McArthur Constitution.
Russia: shell of its former self but still trying to flex whatever muscles it still has.
China: A legitimate power but is vastly overestimated. Still a ways to go before it isn't a third world country anymore. China doesn't "own" the US and never will.
Britain: former hegemon turned US lapdog, but still plays an important role
Germany:Backbone of the Eurozone. Held back by the EU and post WW2 shit
Japan: Most advanced country in Asia. Time to scrap the McArthur Constitution.
Russia: shell of its former self but still trying to flex whatever muscles it still has.
China: A legitimate power but is vastly overestimated. Still a ways to go before it isn't a third world country anymore. China doesn't "own" the US and never will.
1. America - overall just a powerful country
2. China - but is slowing down due to government
3. Russia - Used to be better but now it isnt as good
4. Germany - It is rising but is limited by policies and location
5. Brazil - economy, tech, government are all becoming stronger
2. China - but is slowing down due to government
3. Russia - Used to be better but now it isnt as good
4. Germany - It is rising but is limited by policies and location
5. Brazil - economy, tech, government are all becoming stronger