Well the ideal end result depends on the person, doesn’t it?

I’m sure Karl Marx and Stalin had very different ideas of what the ideal end result of communism would be.

From my understanding; Marx envisioned a worker’s utopia, while Stalin instead used communism to garner as much power for himself as possible.

Why the long face?

Oh right, all the uranium…

The more I study history, the more I see the great wheel of humanity. Communists now, Jews in the 40s, Muslims in the early middles ages, the barbaric Gauls before Christ was even born. It never stops. The people with wisdom die off leaving remnants of their culture and ideas while the next generations tries to piece it all together.

Good people aren’t willing to lie in order to abuse populist fears. Fear is such a powerful political motivator. That’s why we have shitstains like Trump in office. Short sighted people will give up everything to feel “safe”. The reality of our situtation doesn’t seem to matter as much as how people feel inwardly.

America has taken it’s post WW2 golden age economic boom and squandered it for unbelievably greedy short termed gains for a miniscule class of people.

My friend likes to say China is playing civ while America is shooting itself in the foot.

I wonder if anyone ever said “Democracy would never work, just look at what happened to Athens”.

Socialism and communism are relatively new ideas. While I don’t believe communism is an effective form of government, it’s still kind of silly to write it off so quickly.