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I'll share my sentiments too, I guess. Lol.

I came here as an ignorant yet curious 12 year old a few years ago. My dad introduced me to politics with the Zeitgeist film and it opened my eyes to how the world may not be functioning the way it should at its full potential. I've been a friend to Torm through both SCoM and MCF for a few years now and we've earned plenty of experiences together, both debating and wrecking nazi nerds in Minecraft. I'd like to thank all of you, even the "but it only works on paper" people for posting and contributing to this experience I've had being here.

Thank you for promoting the pursuit of truth and practicality! I hope we continue to do so elsewhere where we can further educate people and defeat the ignorance we've learned growing up from the institutions that form our culture.

Best wishes! Feel free to keep in touch over skype, reddit, or steam! (:

Quote from redstonevet90

It's more like if an entire government says it supports something in their Official Charter and a random guy on Minecraft Forums has an opinion that they don't - the government is by far the most credible.

Listen. China can "follow" an ideology all they want. That doesn't mean that their actions are instantly all attempts to perform the things Mao said they should do.

Isn't that just common sense, that for someone to make a claim they have to act to back it up?

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Once again that is all your opinion.

You disagree with the CPC'c official Charter I get it. You claim that you know more about them and what they stand for than they do. I heard that as well. The problem is that this is your opinion. For some reason you can't see that.

Well buddy, that's just your opinion.

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I agree, Hitler wasn't a Communist, he was a Socialist and a self-proclaimed one. Both Communism and Socialism originated from the same ideology.

Lol wtf.

Communism is a sub-type of Socialism. Hitler was not a Socialist. He's already outlined that he is 100% against marxian socialist values, which is what the modern term "socialism" means. We've pointed this out 100 times now.

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I have been discussing Hitler and Stalin.

You're question is irrelevant. If someone says they are a Communist they are a Communist. Just because it is convenient for your argument that Hitler and Stalin are not considered to be part of your ideology doesn't make it so. They both proclaimed to subscribe to that ideology. To deny that is to deny reality.

...Then you better label me a psychotic.

Hitler was not a Communist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Anti-communism

And even if someone claims a label, that doesn't mean that they're practicing that ideology or if their practice betrays the purpose of that ideology. (for example, misandric feminists, which is contradictory to the core beliefs of Feminism)

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You just admitted that you choose to blatantly ignore any pattern and evidence that exists. That is quite unreasonable.

We have witnessed how the Communist ideology goes hand in hand with dictatorship and extreme authoritarianism by self proclaimed Communists and Socialists! There is nothing to explain. It is well documented history.

No, I'm not ignoring the pattern, I'd like you to analyze why those patterns exist. What conditions are set for Communist countries to become authoritarian dictatorships?

You are avoiding my point. Just saying "it's happened with every country" doesn't mean anything to me. How is Communism associated with dictatorships? Why?

Quote from Winter_Mage

Redstonevet, did hitler and stalin follow already established ideologies or did they warp them and proclaimed that warped ideology as the original?

Stalin was a Communist. Hitler completely deviated from Marxian socialism. That is the difference.

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I see why it would be convenient for you to not consider Hitler and Stalin to be part of the ideology you subscribe to, but that isn't the reality. They are both self-proclaimed Communist and Socialist.

That is some cognitive dissonance that you will have to deal with on your own if you truly believe Communism to be an ideology for the greater good. That's also not mentioning the countless other cases were Communism has caused death and suffering everywhere it went.

Hitler was not a Communist. Hitler was not a (marxian) socialist. No one uses the term "socialist" in the sense that Hitler proclaimed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Anti-communism

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Hitler not good enough for you? What about some Joseph Stalin?

Here's some of Stalin's views:

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
- Joseph Stalin

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin


It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin


Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
- Joseph Stalin



The true face of Communism rears it's ugly head yet again.

Lmfao, just read this:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Misattributed

Quote from redstonevet90

That's why I specifically used the word "excuse" because that's what they are - excuses for a ideology that has failed over and over again no matter the country. It's a predictable pattern of poverty and mass murdering dictatorships.

I just explained to you how it isn't an excuse. A country's failure or success is reliant on the circumstances of that country. If you had kulaks, the white army, and external forces in the United States I'm pretty sure they would've experienced something similar.

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Before 1990, there were so many socialist countries, many of them one of the largest in the world - like China or USSR - so it is totally irrelevant argument. Mainly socialist countries were against trade or move of the people between Eastern bloc and capitalist countries, so isolation was what they wanted to have.

So it is still true that socialism is making economic progress slower.

A lack of trade and travel is detrimental to the growth of an economy. It doesn't matter if these countries were huge, with huge numbers there comes huge responsibility, and part of the responsibility was keeping all those people fed. People who, depending on the time period we're talking about, may or may not have been contributing to the soviet economy. Then you have the problems of kulaks, white army, attacks from US + Britain, recovering from WWI, recovering from the civil war, etc.

Too many factors play into the lack of stimulation in the Soviet Union's growth. And even though it had all those detriments it grew tremendously. I can't speak the same for other Eastern European and asianic countries.

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For what it is worth, I will be dedicating this thread to Tormented/Theophys in the OP since he has clearly had the most impact on PPNS of all posters.

Tormented, I really do respect you as a realist political thinker. Without your influence, I may still hold fast to the views of anarchism that now seem so juvenile. Outside of forum discussions, I know you to be a hard worker and a good leader based on our shared experiences in Minecraft.

Honestly, I am deeply grateful for your political posts and discussions as they helped to mature me a great deal. While we may now disagree fundamentally on a whole swathe of issues, you have been one of the greatest influences on my thinking.

Arrived as an Anarchist/Marxist, left as a libertarian Conservative.

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Quote from redstonevet90

You are taking your interpretation of that doctrine and imposing it on the CPC then saying the CPC doesn't support it although their Official Charter says they do.

It's your opinion that they don't support it.
It's also your opinion that I know nothing about the ideology. Pure speculation on your part.

Is that really so hard to understand?

Alright. If you know so much about Maoism, then can you explain the basic tenets of Maoism and how the Communist Party of China is currently working to follow them?

Failure to accept this for any number of bullcrap reasons will be viewed as a concession, since I'm tired of your deflection crap ("It's your opinion!" ad infinitum)

Quote from redstonevet90

LOL!

"I never said such a thing." *

If you knew about Maoism you wouldn't be criticizing my "interpretation" of it nor defending the CPC's application of it.

Then that's where your opinion comes in. It is your opinion that they do not follow that doctrine. The CPC Charter says that they do.

I have to keep rehashing this because both of you refuse to see that you are giving your opinion on whether or not they follow this ideology.

They are not following Mao Zedong Thought doctrine. If you knew about Maoism you would know that China is not currently following it; therefore, the CPC is not following Maoist thought. Whether they claim to support it or actually support it is, as you like to say, irrelevant.

Their Chater simply states that they support the Mao Zedong Thought along with Marxism-Leninism. They don't give their own unique definition of it.

They are not following Mao Zedong Thought doctrine. If you knew about Maoism you would know that China is not currently following it; therefore, the CPC is not following Maoist thought. Whether they claim to support it or actually support it is, as you like to say, irrelevant.

Is that really so hard to understand?

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This is not only an false accusation, but it is still your opinion.

How is it my opinion that you don't know what Maoism is? You not only admitted to not knowing about it, but argued (incorrectly) that knowledge of it wasn't required for this discussion. Yet you're talking as if it's the back of your hand.

North Korea is run by a brainwashed dictatorship so it's hard to use it as an actual example. west germany received help from all the allied countries, so it's also hard to use it as an actual example. Cuba has been cut off from all trade so it's hard to use as an actual example..



etcetera.