Do Communist Parties have any power?
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Gandalf
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Do Communist Parties have any power?
Modern communist parties, does anyone know if they have any power or influence anymore?
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"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
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That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
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Patrick Degan
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Re: Do Communist Parties have any power?
Depends on the country. In China, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, and Cambodia, the Communist party is the government. In Russia and the former Warsaw Pact states, the party has as much power as the number of seats it can win in parliamentary elections. In the European Union, communist parties have to compete for column-space in the newspapers with garden societies. Whereas here in the United States, the CPUSA regularly gets its ass kicked in by the Thursday Night Bowling League.Gandalf wrote:Modern communist parties, does anyone know if they have any power or influence anymore?
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The Duchess of Zeon
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Re: Do Communist Parties have any power?
The Trotskyists were a factor in the Socialists' failure to defeat the National Front during the last French Presidential Elections, but French politics are, I grant, hardly typical for Western Europe.Patrick Degan wrote:Depends on the country. In China, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, and Cambodia, the Communist party is the government. In Russia and the former Warsaw Pact states, the party has as much power as the number of seats it can win in parliamentary elections. In the European Union, communist parties have to compete for column-space in the newspapers with garden societies. Whereas here in the United States, the CPUSA regularly gets its ass kicked in by the Thursday Night Bowling League.Gandalf wrote:Modern communist parties, does anyone know if they have any power or influence anymore?
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The head of the New Zealand communist party was a SIS plant 
There was also the time that the communist party lost all its newspaper archives to a fire, they appealed for the comrades to send in their old copies to restore their archives. The SIS offered to send them the complete set from their own store
There was also the time that the communist party lost all its newspaper archives to a fire, they appealed for the comrades to send in their old copies to restore their archives. The SIS offered to send them the complete set from their own store
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There are a great many communist parties in America, but most of them are jokes.
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