You may be a Communist if . . .

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Dictatorship is worse.

Give me Donald Trump over any dictator since 1900.

If those are the choices give me death, or the strength to kill.

Americans lack the intelligence and integrity to practice democracy.

The problem is there are no benevolent dictatorships. Too few pursue power for good reasons.

And no, power does not corrupt. Power reveals. When a person has the power to do what they've always wanted you see the truth: that deep down inside most people are as*holes, and those that aren't are usually naive.

We need to demand that every politician and business executive have the integrity of Captain America. With the end goal that everyone on Earth have that level of integrity. I'm not joking.

Here's something from my odd fiction-centric perspective.

I've encountered people on the internet who think like what the OP wrote. I don't know if they're actual Communists or just posturing. They'll show up in a discussion of a mainstream, family-friendly film, TV show, book series, etc. the story of which reflects our Capitalist society and some of its flaws -- i.e. the rich picking on the poor. In the end, the heroes manage to pull off a happy ending, despite still living in a not 100% fair system. That makes these people furious. Seemingly, to them, the only acceptable happy ending in a work of fiction is "and then they overthrew the government and lived happily ever after in a Communist utopia." Anything else is "just upholding the status quo." They act shocked and confused that the corporations that produced these works of entertainment didn't give them all that ending.

I don't know what system is best. I've only ever lived under Capitalism and it certainly has its flaws. It's just when taken to these extremes, I feel like they're treating their ideology more like a religion. Same as with people who claim Capitalism is absolutely perfect.

You might be a communist if you respond to any critism of communist states past or present with "But that's not true communism".

Perhaps the most frustrating thing for anyone who wants to honesty study socialism in general, or communism in particular, is Marxist theory. It's the most mind-numbing, tedious theological debate I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.

Karl Marx fancied himself a philosopher, when he was actually no more than a deadbeat, a freeloader, a womanizer, a drunk, and a bully who focused on material conditions and struggles between classes rather than on the refinement of ideas (thus the convoluted verbosity of Das Kapital).

He spend most of the money he coerced out of his friend on cigars, strong drink, and prostitutes.

Karl Marx was sometimes so broke that he had to pawn his only pair of pants, and could not leave the house.  How he got to the pawn shop again to get them back is anyone's guess.

My favorite Karl Marx quote should be plastered on every building in red states:

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."

But what was the opiate of Karl Marx?

Cigars, strong drink, and prostitutes.

Sounds about right. Do be honest I don't think his character flaws or vices make his ideas bad. The best idea could come from the worst man. I think how his ideas have faired in practice makes his ideas bad.

I also do not see a causal connection between being a drunken, chain-smoking womanizer who leeches of other people's income and property for his own benefit while refusing to engage in gainful employment because that would make him a dehumanized tool of the capitalist bourgeoisie and delay the proletarian revolution . . . nope, no causal connection . . . none at all . . .



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Some of the red states need a Pol Pot-type person to, ahem, clean house.

A connection between being a drunken, chain-smoking womanizer who leeches of other people's income and property for his own benefit while refusing to engage in gainful employment because that would make him a dehumanized tool of the capitalist bourgeoisie and delay the proletarian revolution and what?

Another communist dictator I liked was Enver Hoxha (Albania), the only world leader to have officially banned religion in his country.

He could have whipped Mississippi, Alabama and Utah into shape.