Proof of the Infesability of Communism

[Yogi]

http://www.theonion.com/onion3842/marxi ... tment.html

[Kuja]

Hah. Mike should get a kick out of this.

[jegs2]

http://www.theonion.com/onion3842/marxi ... tment.html

Greed and selfishness will blow that ideal apart every time.

[Sea Skimmer]

The fact that dozens of such governments have collapsed after 70 or less years of massive dysfunction and of the four that remain three only do so by embracing capitalism and the fourth is starving seem to be proof enough.

Funny article, I just love "the forced voluntary taxation that is key to socialism" bit

[ElBlanco]

I forget where I found this analogy (might have been here): Listening to a Communist is like listening to a battered wife going back to the pig who beat her, " It will be different this time. We'll make it work, I swear"

[Kuja]

I forget where I found this analogy (might have been here): Listening to a Communist is like listening to a battered wife going back to the pig who beat her, " It will be different this time. We'll make it work, I swear"

A true, if cruel, analogy.

[Peregrin Toker]

Actually, there were functioning collectivist societies in Europe a long time ago, but those were small farming collectives in the Neolithic period, and they became increasingly hierarchial around 5000-6000 years ago. (Probably due to cultural contamination from Indo-European nomads)