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Beso
16-08-2025, 11:30 PM
There seems to be a massive rise in the popularity of communism in the younger generation.

It is after all going to be theirs when some of us are all gone.


Would it work better than what we have now, especially once all the old cronies are gone.
BBXX
17-08-2025, 06:09 AM
I don’t believe so no.

I do think there needs to be some kind of reform (not that kind!!) on Capitalism but I don’t believe Communism is the answer to a successful (and happy and relatively free) nation.

However happy to hear otherwise as I do admit my knowledge on this subject is low.

Interesting topic.
Mystic Mock
17-08-2025, 06:17 AM
Like most ideas in Politics, it would probably come with some good stuff and some bad stuff to it.

It's a boring answer I know.:laugh:
bots
17-08-2025, 06:43 AM
politics always goes through cycles. Communism was far more prevalent in the UK in the 60's than it is now. I don't believe any political party has longevity about them these days if they remain democratic
Oliver_W
17-08-2025, 08:10 AM
The default answer would no, not without a good argument in support of it.
emseateng2014
22-09-2025, 03:06 AM
maybe it is on a alternate earth
Livia
22-09-2025, 09:05 AM
It's worked so well for the people of China, Cuba, The Soviet Union... Oh no, scrap that last one.

The Communist Party tried for a hundred years to be relevant in this country, even disrupting the war effort in WW2, and they're no further forward now than they were then. It's not what this country is all about.
Crimson Dynamo
22-09-2025, 02:48 PM
No

Its a terrible concept that fundamentally does not understand people
Barry.
22-09-2025, 02:51 PM
No.

Lots of our rights would be stripped away
emseateng2014
22-09-2025, 07:02 PM
the commies used to run most of euro during the cold war

It's worked so well for the people of China, Cuba, The Soviet Union... Oh no, scrap that last one.

The Communist Party tried for a hundred years to be relevant in this country, even disrupting the war effort in WW2, and they're no further forward now than they were then. It's not what this country is all about.
Beso
22-09-2025, 07:08 PM
the commies used to run most of euro during the cold war

Yes. They did, Yugoslavia didn't work.
emseateng2014
22-09-2025, 07:55 PM
the fall of the commies began when the berlin wall came down

Yes. They did, Yugoslavia didn't work.
Livia
22-09-2025, 11:12 PM
the commies used to run most of euro during the cold war

Hmmm... They'd certainly like to think they did.

Yes. They did, Yugoslavia didn't work.

Yugoslavia fell apart when Tito died, just like everyone said it would.
The Slim Reaper
23-09-2025, 12:02 AM
Everyone is born a communist. Ask a child if a homeless person should have a house, if a sick person should be given medicine, and whether poor people should be given work and money.

Capitalism beats it out of us. It's clear from reading the replies in here that no one really understands what communism actually is, and I'm not a communist for the record. it is a far better way to work a society, than continuing the capitalism that has seen your streets and town centres decimated, that killed an estimated 300k British people with austerity between 2010-19, and that will remove your healthcare after farage is elected.

We live under the most oppressive and aggressive version of capitalism since the early 20th century, and people will still vote for more of the same and worse every election, rather than just trying something different for a 5 year term.