Is it only the Communists who really care about ordinary working people?
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if by caring you mean, keep the politicians rich, and everyone else poor, then yes.\n\nCommunism has been proven not to work several times.  Free market is what works.  If you work hard, you are rewarded.  If you do not work, then you are not rewarded, unless some liberals get some things their way.\n\nedit*  the question asked about who cares about WORKING people.  Capitalism takes care of people who WORK.  If you are looking for a handout, or looking to have the government take things you worked hard for, and distribute them to the non workers, then socialism is for you.\n\nSocialism:  Study hard, work hard, become a doctor or start a business, and have everything you worked for given away to the people who chose not to study or work.
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You should read Karl Marx's book.  I read it in 9th grade, and was supprised by how differently it was portrayed.  The idea of communism in it's simplest is perfect.  Every one has food, clothing, and more than enough to thrive.  Communism would be the perfect government if we could find a ruler who wasn't self absorbed and greedy.  Unfortunately, that's not how most humans function.  (In enland, with the Monarch, Parliment was established to make sure that the King/ Queen wasn't abusing his/her powers, and I bet something similar would function well in a Communist community).  Communisim is only condsidered bad or evil because dictators in the past have proven to be bad or evil.
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Yes.  They have communist ties.  Unfortunately there really is no such thing as a communism because of fall of Russia.  Very few countries continue to follow those dead beliefs, but China [except for Hong Kong] and Cuba still do.
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no!welcome to the real world,communism is just a theorie..the countries they had communism suffered from hunger and luck of opportunities..their goverments tried to manipulate the people and the ''big heads''were sharing all the wealth while the others had almost nothing.as long as money exists nothing can be shared equal in this world.
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Communism will never work.  Why would you bother to work hard when you get the same for your hard work as some lazy ass?  The biggest problem with communism is it doesn't take into account one simple factor:  human nature
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No, they don't at the average level.\n\nFBI workers are well paid, have cool perks and do not really take their work personally.  They are good workers, but not intellectually excited...if PAID to read this site during work hours, they would do it, but their spare time is not spent on work type issues, like a doctor or auto mechanic, who might read up on medicine, or have an antique car up on egg crates that they have been restoring since 1969, e.g.
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most americans like everyone else in the world have the tendency to stereotype and judge without enough information, sure there are those with good hearts and working brains, but sadly they are most of the time overshadowed by ignorant and arogant ones, i don't believe in communism, but this doesn't mean i have to fight everyone else with different belief than mine, and doesn't necessarily mean i'm right and they are wrong in the 1st place !! God when will this world grow up a little!
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Its true.  Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft all support Communist China.  You would think that Businesses that have prospered becuase of the nation they were founded, and the freedoms they had in developing they're services, would at least not support communistic ideals but you can tell from all the news stories over the past month or two that, they all do in fact agree, support and abide by the Communist Ideology in China, all for Money.\n\nCapitalism at its best!\n\nWouldn't it be funny if Yahoo deleted this question?  LOL
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Why shouldn't they be, isn't it discrimination if they don't?\nCapitalists are still worried to death about Communists,and rightly so (esp USA).\nI wonder why (apart from the stuff they have read in the capitalist news papers and watched on the capitalist TV)\nI don't think capitalists and communists can ever reach a mutual understanding. (Religion is the opium of the working classes) some one once said! he was right. Both sides have committed atrocities, both sides have done some good, is the question meant to prove this sort of reaction?
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Some of the most succesful businessmen and women in the world have come from working class backgrounds.
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The present leadership could care less about the average worker Joe or Josephine. They are all about special interest. Every time you pay your heat bill, or buy gas or drugs you see it reflected in the price. A majority of the people are being run by the few in a situation brought on by a stolen election and an election that reaked of impropriety.
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Karl Marx, Frederich Engles, and Co. did.  Of course, what is Communism again?  I know the governement didn't control people and money.  Especially in the Soviet Union.\n\nPatriotism\n\nValor\n\nLies\n\nTruth\n\nReligion\n\nIdeology\n\nHatred\n\nLove\nAll have been used to control people, money and institutions.  Whether their use was ethical or not is another question.  Read Plato's Gorgias
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I don't feel that these people are insignificant. I just think that they lack understanding. We mock that which we do not understand. A lot of Democrats/Liberals don't understand that the world is not always a warm and fuzzy place. It's not a warm and fuzzy place when I have to get up and go to work in the mornings either but there are times when you have to work and there are times when you can play. This is one of those unpleasant times. Sometimes leaders have to make unpopular decisions knowing that what they are doing is what is best for the country in the long run. Why can't we have our instant gratification on this one? Waaah! It's just like payday. You have to work for a while first doing things that nobody likes then you get your reward in the form of a paycheck later. By the way the Fed is having to raise interest rates to cool off the economy so that it doesn't grow out of control raising the risk of inflation. So much for the weak economy. Another thing, If the bashers on here think this war has been soooo bad..... Research the sacrifices that we had to make here at home because of WWII. You think the gas situation is bad now? The habit of making repairs yourself began during WWII. If your whatnot broke during WWII there weren't enough resources for you to go buy a new one because those resources were diverted to the military. And there wasn't anybody to fix your whatnot because they were at war and doing that for the military. People need to quit whining so much about our government and start learning to appreciate what we have.\n\nBigfatdumbloser why would you call anyone milking a cow on a farm a stupid redneck? That's the kind of work that has to be done if you want something nutritious. That's the kind of work that has to be done if we all want to eat. Just another Liberal Democrat stereotyping Conservatives and not understanding the way things work in the real world. Thanks for helping me make my point.
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Communism as such means a political party in favour of the working class. It was party formed by the workers to oppose the rich or the wealtheir. The working class has always been oppressed under the rich factory owner who used to utilise them.\n\nJust like any other countries, there are labor union for companies, but in kerala, the communist party being very strong and supporting to the workers, there you can see many workers union for 90% of the factories and companies. This in a way was/is to support the interest of the workers.
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I'm not sure because communism is inherently evil. It relies on depriving the people of the truth. It relies on the hard work of the few supporting the many.\n\nThere has never been a communist regime that has worked. Just look at the USSR and all of the eastern bloc countries. Their people were enslaved and tried to escape whenever possible. You NEVER saw large groups of people defect en masse to a communist country. Hell, even Lee Harvey Oswald gave up on communism and came back to the States.\n\nLook at the few remaining communist countries today. China is barely recognizable as a communist country - it more closely resembles Wall Street today. Cuba is barlely holding on to survival. North Korea is watching hundreds of thousands of its people starve to support its military. And Vietnam is just, well, there.\n\nCommunism does not inspire people to be great because the reward for hard work is not there. In order for people to do truly great things, there must be some kind of reward for their hard work. Where is the reward if your hard work will just be spread out amongst those who had nothing to do with your success?\n\nYet, many are trying to implement aspects of communism into our society claiming it is the answer. Just remember to look at history, folks ...
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Well, this was done by most of the communist countries. As you know communisam crashed across the world!\n\nI feel Govt should encourage people to earn mony to safeguard themself. Providing homes will make them lazy!
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The initial premise for the question, a group of perfect people,does not exist.Various communist leaders have recognised the problem but have come nowhere near solving the problem of how to create the perfect man to fit into their theoretically perfect societies.\n\nIn "Communism y el hombre" Che roughly said that "to build communism simultaneously with its material base, we must also build the new man. He will represent neither the ideas and values of our own decadent and corrupt society nor those of the past.... it will take a long time."\n\nPol Pot, having spent part of his youth in a Theravadaian monastery, believed in nihilism ie just as an individual needs to purge himself of selfishness and indeed of self in order to reach perfection, so to build a socialist society it was firstly neccesary to destroy the old society. However, re-education, the abolition of money and transporting most of the population to the country for agricultural work did not solve the problem. Cambodian agricultural production actually fell as people produced only enough for their own needs and the factories didn't work because most of the people needed to run them were dead or working in the country.The regime lasted for less than three years.\n\nNo man made system is ever going to work anything like perfectly or produce anything like a perfect man. The only perfect man I know is Jesus, and as I get to apply His cross to my life and to know Him more intimately, so I can become more like Him.