My boyfriend misuses the term "communist" and calls anything or anyone he disagrees with one, but...

[Gnome]

he seems to have forgotten that the real communist here is Death, because

Death [is] nothing if not a Marxist. Death [does] not care for your age, your karma, your faith, your gender, your sexual orientation, your race, your political affiliation, or whether you [are] verified on Twitter.

[Radene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C4Warr10r:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

Death is pervasive, too, from everyone's point of view.

You do realize that communism is a more extreme version of socialism. So, a communist revolution would not be redressing anything, but worsening everything.

No, I don't realize that. Communism is just international socialism, but more ideological and annoying. What has gotten into you, love? What does death have to do with anything political?

Please quit flirting in public. We're trying to have a conversation here.

[Radene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Iroqouis Pliskin, LTJG:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C4Warr10r:

I'm not just whistling Dixie, here. Socialism, in any form, through demanding entitlement, breeds a desire for powe rand therefore a centralized state. Communism is the desire to control a centralized state in order to bring about a nation that can't exist. Show me one example where that hasn't happened and I'll cede the point.

You set up too much of a basic premise. Communism isn't the only ideology that has sought to bring about a centralized state. Authoritarianism on both sides of the spectrum has sought to do that, but they disagree radically on the actual ingredients necessary to do so. The Communists say to do so requires the government seizure of the means of production and the elimination of class.

The other simply believes that all citizens of a nation should answer unquestionably to a central government and fervously obey its laws. Though Communism also pursues this, it is based on a different model and one of them lacks two of the basic ingredients of Communism. How can anyone who seeks a centralized state be a Communist, if they don't seek to, well, implement the primary basic principles of Communism?

Yeah, you could hardly call Louis "L'etat, c'est moi!" XIV a "communist".

[Gnome]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C4Warr10r:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

Death is pervasive, too, from everyone's point of view.

You do realize that communism is a more extreme version of socialism. So, a communist revolution would not be redressing anything, but worsening everything.

No, I don't realize that. Communism is just international socialism, but more ideological and annoying. What has gotten into you, love? What does death have to do with anything political?

I thought people would get a kick out of this. I thought calling death a Marxist was funny.

Lighten up, love.

[-[GOOD]- CosmicTheMecklenburger]

Are you saying commies aren't biased? Have you seen how many people they have killed in genocide? They line anyone that disagrees with them up against a wall and shoot them.

[Velstrum]

hm....the use of communist to most may be a insult, yet at the same time the insult makes no true platform for the insulter. i think he simply uses it in a ironic way.

[Alpha]

Ecclesiastes 2:15-17 Then I said to myself, "As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?" So I said to myself, "This too is vanity." For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die! So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

[C4Warr10r]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

I thought people would get a kick out of this. I thought calling death a Marxist was funny.

Death doesn't demand class equality. In fact, he's rather classist about it. Sorry, I'm shutting up now.

[Radene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cosmic:

Are you saying commies aren't biased? Have you seen how many people they have killed in genocide? They line anyone that disagrees with them up against a wall and shoot them.

Actually, how many? Remember, messing up the agricultural policy so badly that millions of people die of hunger is not "genocide"; it's "being a stupidly incompetent idiot".

[Chocolate Pie Kitten]

Blaming communism for Staline is as blaming jesus for inquisition and all others religions and philosophies , there is the idealogy , the philosophy and how it was used as a screen name..
Isis is in no way islam, torquemada and bigots are in no way christianism, staline, china are in no way socialist or communists.

[Gnome]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C4Warr10r:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

I thought people would get a kick out of this. I thought calling death a Marxist was funny.

Death doesn't demand class equality. In fact, he's rather classist about it. Sorry, I'm shutting up now.

Lighten up, love.

I was hoping to get a laugh out of this. And I did. Too bad it did not escalate!

[Gnome]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Radene:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cosmic:

Are you saying commies aren't biased? Have you seen how many people they have killed in genocide? They line anyone that disagrees with them up against a wall and shoot them.

Actually, how many? Remember, messing up the agricultural policy so badly that millions of people die of hunger is not "genocide"; it's "being a stupidly incompetent idiot".

Bet he did it on purpose, too.

[Radene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Radene:

Actually, how many? Remember, messing up the agricultural policy so badly that millions of people die of hunger is not "genocide"; it's "being a stupidly incompetent idiot".

Bet he did it on purpose, too.

Oh yes, obviously. If I was taking my data from the internet debates, I would think that in capitalism, causes of death look like this:

45% - cardiovascular disease
32% - cancer
11% - traffic accidents
6% - sonic parasites
2% - acts of God
4% - some weird timey-wimey stuff (or aliens)

Whereas in communism they look like this:

120% - GENOCIDE

[C4Warr10r]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

Lighten up, love.

I was hoping to get a laugh out of this. And I did. Too bad it did not escalate!

I would, but are you straight TRYING to get yourself banned again?

[Gnome]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Radene:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gnome:

Bet he did it on purpose, too.

Oh yes, obviously. If I was taking my data from the internet debates, I would think that in capitalism, causes of death look like this:

45% - cardiovascular disease
32% - cancer
11% - traffic accidents
6% - sonic parasites
2% - acts of God
4% - some weird timey-wimey stuff (or aliens)

Whereas in communism they look like this:

120% - GENOCIDE

Good point!

[TheRandomGuy]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Iroqouis Pliskin, LTJG:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cosmic:

Are you saying commies aren't biased? Have you seen how many people they have killed in genocide? They line anyone that disagrees with them up against a wall and shoot them.

I always wondered why everybody only hears about how Hitler killed 6,000,000 in school and never heard about how Stalin killed 25,000,000.

I assume it's because Hitler and ♥♥♥♥ Germany lost WW2, Stalin and the USSR did not, and therefore nobody cares about the millions of Russians he killed, Gulag'd, or imprisoned in the Great Purge / Great Terror that went on in the mid-1930s. Conversely though, not many Soviet Citizens really blamed Stalin either, most of them thought it was the NKVD's fault and directed blame at them. Stalin didn't really start getting blamed until Khrushchev became the leader, lessened censorship, and allowed critics of Stalin to talk without getting disappeared.

But all in all, history is written by the victors, Hitler lost, Stalin didn't.