What I Like About Communism

oldtime · Jan 21, 2012

If you listen to any of the Republican candidates, all they talk about is creating jobs. Back in the good old U.S.S.R. nobody was ever unemployed. All you had to do was stand in line and eventually you would get a job, which is a hell of a lot more than Obama is offering.

Laugh if you want, but when it comes to employment the USSR beat the hell out of the USA.

If employment is the biggest issue, why don't we all just become communists? What do we have to lose? It can't be any worse than democracy.

hkrahra · Jan 21, 2012

I was happy to live in the USSR until my 16.And i`m jellouse of my parents and grand parents who used to live in the USSR for a long time.I`ve never ever seen more happier people.I`ll never see such happy and spiritually strong people(even though there was no religion) again.

There wasnt such thing in their mind like 'no work'.It was similar to upper- heaven planets kind of life.There will never be this kind of environment as the communism was in the USSR on this Planet again.Ever!

Tooooooo bad!!!

oldtime · Jan 21, 2012

Quote from hkrahra:

I was happy to live in the USSR until my 16.And i`m jellouse of my parents and grand parents who used to live in the USSR for a long time.I`ve never ever seen more happier people.I`ll never see such happy and spiritually strong people(even though there was no religion) again.

There wasnt such thing in their mind like 'no work'.It was similar to upper- heaven planets kind of life.There will never be this kind of environment as the communism was in the USSR on this Planet again.Ever!

Tooooooo bad!!!

yes, those were the good old days

zdreg · Jan 21, 2012

Quote from hkrahra:

I was happy to live in the USSR until my 16.And i`m jellouse of my parents and grand parents who used to live in the USSR for a long time.I`ve never ever seen more happier people.I`ll never see such happy and spiritually strong people(even though there was no religion) again.

There wasnt such thing in their mind like 'no work'.It was similar to upper- heaven planets kind of life.There will never be this kind of environment as the communism was in the USSR on this Planet again.Ever!

Tooooooo bad!!!

of course that's why people died trying to escape the socialist paradise.

how comes very few people tried to enter the socialist paradise?

Eight · Jan 21, 2012

I worked with people that escaped [that's right, they paid to get out] Russia/Eastern Europe... They said they always had a job but the thing was that if a project needed 5 people 30 were hired and 25 sat around playing chess and backgammon [they were good at both of those games, as if I needed proof]..

I've had jobs where I didn't have to do much, it's crazy-making.. another problem in Russia was that the state told you what job to take, or what career.. People that are not suited for their jobs are MISERABLE...

hkrahra · Jan 21, 2012

Quote from zdreg:

of course that's why people died trying to escape the socialist paradise.

how comes very few people tried to enter the socialist paradise?

excuse me,i didnt get what you meant.

yg10 · Jan 22, 2012

Quote from hkrahra:

excuse me,i didnt get what you meant.

Compare the number of people who emigrated _from_ Soviet Union and number of people who went there.

Random.Capital · Jan 22, 2012

Quote from oldtime:

If you listen to any of the Republican candidates, all they talk about is creating jobs. Back in the good old U.S.S.R. nobody was ever unemployed.

Dude...lol...I don't know who you are in real life, but if we're ever in the same place at the same time, I hope you let me buy you a drink.

Or eight.

hkrahra · Jan 22, 2012

Quote from yg10:

Compare the number of people who emigrated _from_ Soviet Union and number of people who went there.

Thanks for clarifying.

It doesn't prove anything.The emigration from Russia now is more staggering,and ones who entering are mostly the workers with no proper qualification from the near east.

xiaodre · Jan 22, 2012

The Soviet communist system was corrupted before Lenin was even cold in his tomb. The bad outweighed the good in communism for Russia, just like the bad is far outweighing the good in wild capitalism for Russia. Test for the common denominator - it's Russia (bad and good being subjective and opinion).

Emotions and opinions aside, the efficiency of state mandates over individual liberties for large projects cannot be denied. Communist Russia drove a backward country through the industrial revolution in 20 years and beat back the Hun in world war 2. I think it's safe to say the Soviets achieved greatness. Personally, I think they should have killed the lot of them and established the newly minted state of Isreal right there in the middle of Europe, but that's just me. I hate fkn krauts.

Then again, Soviet Russia could never play nice with the rest of the world of which they are only a part and isn't that also a test of a state system? For some reason, they felt compelled to scupper and/or dominate certain negotiations just because they could. And here is capitalist Russia doing the same. Surprise!