CLASSIC QUESTION: Is Communism bad?

Question

I live in Vietnam, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh's picture is on every piece of money. Flags with the Hammer and Sickle are seen everywhere. Police wear uniforms that look like something the Soviet Army would have worn. Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

Communism like freemasonry is dedicated to the abolition of religion and private ownership, of course it is bad.

Answer 2

Yes, communism is bad.  It takes away the one thing people value most:  freedom.  Your written English is very good.

Answer 3

Communism as an idea has fine moral standings and should theoretically balance a nation and promote equality although it is almost certainly the human desire for power that corrupts communism. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." The quote by Lord Acton outlines the end result of power and can be reflected into communism.

Answer 4

Communism for groups of 30 people or less: good.

Communism on a national scale: a historically impossible dream.

Answer 5

Communism is great if your are dirt poor and need the state to feed you and give you a job. Communism is bad if you are trying to support your family and working to improve their standard of living. What you work for belongs to the state first before it belongs to you.

Capitalism is unequal distribution of wealth.

Communism is equal distribution of poverty.

Answer 6

I have always thought  of Communism as a government that run the way a families do. Peoples needs are met regardless of their contributions, but in order for it to function their must be an authority to watch everyone make sure they behave and do their share. It works for families because family members  love each other and is necessary  because young children  can not care for themselves. However when this model is transferred to a nation  you have a description of a police state.

Answer 7

Yes, communism is bad.

Communism stands for the worst form of Tyranny in human history. It is more violent than Nazism, and more deceptive than Satan himself.

Communism advocates aim for other people's assets without sweating themselves. They incite the poor-uneducated-but-greedy to jealous and hate the diligent-thrifty-and-rich, saying life is not fare, because "all men are entitled to free food, free accommodation and free s*x". Communist leaders induce their followers to "erase all the exploiters", that is, to kill the rich and rob their land, assets, business, and women.

Once the world is upside down and the communists are in control, the leaders take away all resources from their followers, in the name of "private assets should belong to everyone in the society" and "we leaders manage and re-distribute the wealth on behalf of the people". The leaders re-distribute all wealth to their own family members and army members that support them.

Anyone who is smart or bold enough to question the leaders will be put in jails, if not killed. Torture, rape, humiliation of dead bodies, harvest of organs are not all. Their family members hate them, stating that they don't see them as part of the family, as the family members would be prosecuted if they don't say so.

In all communist countries, people keep watching on each other, regularly and secretly report to the police about the actions and speeches of their spouse, parents, children, brothers and sisters, relatives, friends and neighbors. Movie "Other people's life" tells you what it's like living a communism life. People don't trust one another. Each has an instinct to hurt others, and feel very happy to see his/her acquaintances punished by the authorities (that means punishment hasn't got to him/her yet). They don't know in the rest of the world, people live in peace, people don't suppress each other like crazy.

The leaders systematically brainwash its people that communism is heaven, and the rest of the world is h**l - In capitalism, bussiness owners exploit average people resulting in the later often go hunger. The leaders also educate its people that the Capitalists want to exploit the communist people, therefore capitalists are enemies. People from communist countries flee away from their homeland once given a chance. They come to the West for EQUAL OPPOTUNITIES. Unfortunately, when they see the locals own houses, they jealous. They thought it is not fare not to own a house overnight. They "realize" that the West is "taking advantage" of them, and suddenly feel their own government very "close and warm". But they are not willing to go back to poverty. All they can do to make them feel happy is criticizing the West, and help their government in spying and propoganda.

Communism creates fools and madmen with multiple-personality. It is a virus that can be easily spred around the world by people that are simple-minded, ignorant, violent or unsatisfied with reality. You need to be infected once in order to understand it and up against it. It infects you by attacking the darkest side of human nature: greed, jealousy, fear, selfishness, ignorance, arrogance, hostility, advanturousness...

Answer 8

true comunism is a good idea that can never work in the real world. all the comunist countries have lost the true meaning of the word. comunism is as good or as bad as capitalism. as with all things the truth does not stand at the edges its in  the midle