Communism is Still Alive

This is a post from a message board on my space. I was responding to the question is Communism dead?

I don't think that communism is, dead, but I also believe that the idea of a Utopian Global Communism is. You can't have communism if everyone is on a different page, and thus it couldn't (or wouldn't) work on an international, or even national stage. The place to find communism is not under nationalist banners like, Cuba, China, Soviet Union . . . Nationalization of industry is not the same as communism. Instead look within these nations for smaller communities. There is on in Virginia. Twin Oaks is a great example they have been around for decades and they still manage to function in a communistic way, although their model is B.F. Skinner's Walden Two not Marx's Communist Manifesto. I am a strong believer in the power of small bands as alternative to conglomerates of people. This is something that has worked for Human beings since the formation of the intial hunter gatherer societies. Tribes would come together once a year to meet by a central watering hole, while throughout the rest of the year, no more than 15 people would make up a band, with alternating leadership and an enconomy based on resiprocity. One may ask, well whats the point, this is not progress, its primitivism and seems like hard work that would be uncomfortable. Well hows this. Tribal societies that still function in this way have far more leizure time than do members modern societies. So all this progress that technology has given us has only made us have to work harder to keep the stupid shit that is plugged to us on television. The trouble with agruing about Communism, with in our modern society is the problem of progress, and profit margins. How can I possible argue against Wolfie. Yes Capitalism is the best way to instigate progress and generate profits, but if you are looking toward a communist alternative, you are not asking, how can I turn a profit and still be a commie. What you are saying is, I am fed up with the whole system and I want something new. Fuck Profits, fuck progress, you can keep your robots, I just wanna enjoy the world, not exploit it.




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Life for Moussaoui

Normally I wouldn't break my end of the semester studies, and particularly at now seeing as this is my last semester at college, but there is certainly reason to rant. Today it was descided that Zacarias Moussaoui the only person put on trial for the september 11th attacks on the the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is to get life in prison, and avoid the death penalty. I really don't have much to rant about except to say that I am so exhilirated that a man put on trial for acts of terrorism would be relativly fairly tried in this country. Of course I say relatively fair, because I am not sure that his involvement deserves life in-prisonment, but he could have easily been put to death, but wasn't. I think this attests to the validity of the U.S. juridical system, which on occasion does get overwhelmed by the sway of politics but on occasion also produces a descion on a case that this nation can be proud of.
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