Please forgive me for retreading over things already mentioned.
TN wrote:
Hey, im a Maoist Commie aspie, I made this Disscussion about Communisim, All sides are welcome
to Discuss this conversation. So Send if you like
Are you really a Maoist? I mean honestly? Consider that the ideology of Mao Tse-Tung does not permit almost any opposing ideologies within the extreme authoritarian socialist spectrum (as witnessed by his purges of critics), let alone anything like freedom of expression or speech that we are so fortunate to have in the United States but still don't exist in post-Maoist China.
Do you think Mao, who without conscious(1) showed no compassion what so ever to the millions he murdered, and starved to death in his mammoth products of social engineerings provided better then average care to the "differently-abled."
(1)Literally, see
Mao, the Unknown Story by Chang and Holliday; p. 13-14)
For the record, Maoist China was responsible for the death of up to 76,692,000 people.
(source) Maoists terrorists in other countries have murdered thousands more.
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Maoist? Are you sure that is a good choice? Why can't you be a form of communism that didn't kill millions of people? Really though, the fact that the country of Mao basically repudiated him seems indicative of something at the least.
Mao and economics...
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Mao had no grasp of economics. According to
Bo Yibo, Mao asked to read and listen to reports from the ministries at this time [1953-56], but "he found it extremely taxing," and complained the reports contained "only dull lists and figures, and no stories."...
Chou En-Lai found himself being admonished for "flooding Chairman Mao with boring materials and stories."...Mao had trouble even with basic numbers...Yugoslavia's No. 2, Edward Kardelj, observed after he met Mao in 1957. "He said, for example, "In two hundred years' time, or perhaps in forty'." -
Mao, Chang, Halliday; p. 398-99
snake321 wrote:
Well communism is really no more or less tyrannical than capitalism. Capitalism is the rule of the upper class, lower classes are the subject of systematic neglect and/or abuse, this has especially been true for minorities in capitalist nations.
Free-market capitalism is an economic system rather then a political system. A more proper comparison would be between democratic socialism (something along the lines of that which was advocated by Eugene Debs), and democratic capitalism, OR authoritarian socialism and authoritarian capitalism. An example of an authoritarian country with a free-market economy (indeed, more so then the United States) would be Singapore.
However, there is certainly a connection between political freedom and economic freedom. Countries with more open political systems tend to have more open economies and vice versa. For more information on economic freedom, political freedom, and a new survey on religious freedom:
Index of Economic Freedom 2007
Freedom House
Religious Freedom trends (Freedom House)
