Comments on: Karl Marx predicted it all

By: TheWatcher

TheWatcher — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:45:55 +0000

Im afraid i don’t share the same sentiments as you,Edgar, though you are correct in a sense.Yes, all those countries are evidence of failed Communist regimes, but the naive notion of Liberalism is only a cleverly-edited watered down version of NeoColonialism. Im not a Know-it-all or nothing like that, but we are moving backwards, Sir, slowly but surely..

By: Edgar Cubina

Edgar Cubina — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:35:36 +0000

I always have thought Liberalism far beyond any economic policy.

I only understand it as a free way of thinking involving all views of our existency under the path of the individual, social, economic and human FREEDOM in order to share self confidentiality with the community.

We have a long list of countries (Russia, China, Irán, Burma, URSS, Cuba, North Corea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Venezuela, Bolivia ….) where Communism’failures are and have been suffered by its citizens. These examples are the final answer to the question argued by Mr. Bigwood attending to the possible “return to a new form of communism”….

Let’s keep moving….. FORWARD!

By: Gilmour Poincaree

Gilmour Poincaree — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:27:19 +0000

No … they’re back to their ‘industrialized Asian Mode of Production’ … crony capitalist style … with an oligarchy everything else …

By: Guy Bigwood

Guy Bigwood — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:03:24 +0000

Good point . But isn’t that whats happening in Russia now? Is Russia returning to a newer form of Communism? The government control (directly and indirectly) of the big corporations and apparent peoples support of the “old values” seems like a return to their old path. I don’t pretend to be an expert in Communism but they certainly have veered away from the perestroika and glasnost path.

By: Gilmour Poincaree

Gilmour Poincaree — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:44:22 +0000

He certainly WASN’t in the case of Russia … according to Marx the development of capitalism would have to be accomplished in order to make possible the rise of a communist society … Russia went from a from a feudal system to something that could be better described as an industrialized ‘Asian Mode of Production’ …

By: Guy Bigwood

Guy Bigwood — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:00:46 +0000

That was not my point, so i will rephrase. however it does beg the question… who know how this will turn out in 20 years. perhaps Marx will be right. he certainly was in the case of Russia

By: Gilmour Poincaree

Gilmour Poincaree — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:15:17 +0000

You bluntly confuse government management with Communism …