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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 August | 75 comments (75 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

So, whatever happened to communism? Wasn't it this kind of capitalism that communism was intended to cure, the kind that leaves most people impoverished and a few living the high life at the top?

by shergald on Sat Aug 28th, 2010 at 07:24:39 PM EST
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What ? when was this communism ? You had state controlled feudalism which then morphed into the cut-throat capitalism of piratical financialism. I didn't notice any communism in reality, whatever it said on the label.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:48:59 AM EST
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Yes Helen, we all know that communism was a failure from the beginning, but it was the hell called life under the Industrial Revolution in 19th century England that inspired Marx, no doubt.

The post is otherwise intended to be cynical.

by shergald on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 11:10:10 AM EST
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As far as I'm aware, china, the subject under discussion, never had the hell on earth called the industrial revolution anyway. So the "communism" which was inflicted upon it was no reaction to it.

Mao was more influenced by the cult of Lenin than the prose of Marx anyway.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 12:06:39 PM EST
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