If the USA is democratic country, then why do the communist party still forbidden?
931343
It isn't. They run candidates. They just don't get many votes.
370784
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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There isn't, nor ever has been, a Communist country - only feeble attempts by Communist politicians and governments.  But while Capitalism still has a foothold, Communism could never occur.\n\nThe US trade embargo on Cuba exists because the US government under various Presidents don't like Cuba's regime under Fidel Castro and are waiting for him to die.\n\nChina no longer suffers any US embargo because they have embraced Capitalism with fervour and, if you compare whats going on in Gauntanamo Bay (which is on Cuban soil without permission from the Cuban government) with Chinas record on Human Rights, the US has a close ally in terms of treating people badly, unfairly and cruelly.\n\nYou have asked a good question which invokes a lot of history, politics, law and economics - well done.
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Well, lets look at the facts:\n-USA's the richest country\n-they (other countries) are communists (DUH!)\n-they believe in stupid religions\n-they're nationalists; racists too\n-their poorly educated\n-this is "the land of the free" where they dislike our rules of free speech, sex, etc.\n-they're NOT AMERICAN (DUH!)\n-scientifically advanced nuclear weapons of "mass destruction"
608827
Absolutely not. Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production.  In theory, wouldn't it be great to live in a society where education, medical treatment and living costs were all free?  Greed is what causes communism to fail when it is put into practice, but then greed is also what causes democracy to fail in its own aspects.\n\nHowever, many of the major Communists like Marx, Stalin, Mao, and Lenin were all very intelligent people.
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There really has never been a real communist state in the world. Only totalitarian governments that called themselves communist. I don't think it works.\n\nOn the other hand. A government made up of several types of ideals I beleive is the way. Like the US or Canada. A democracy with a capitalistic base, seasoned with socialism works very well. As long as it doesn't get too one way or the other, business booms, and the poor get help.
340992
It's got nothing to do with communism, but with international trade barriers. China has got lots of people who are willing to work for $2 a month, compare that to the US! And in Europe the FORMER communist states like Poland have very cheap labor service too. So it's not amazing that the USA who is CAPITALIST moves out their business to places that have CHEAP labor.
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none.\n\nThey have so many seats but they can't be able to control them. \n\nThey can't survive without the communists.
638551
Some of the countries who have the power of veto aren't democracies at all.\nChina is not a democracy for example.\nTo answer your question, America is a capitalist country and are attempting to promote democracy because statistically, the more pro-American democracies there are in the world, the richer America gets. Get it?
919774
They have a far left Anti American organization. They are on the side of the Democrats. If there was a viable Communist party they would be on their side.\nJust realize this. This is not the same ACLU in the past. Their leader, Romero used to be the head of the American Communist Party.\nThey are rabid atheists and believers in one world government. Their goal is to weaken the USA, to fulfill their worldly goals.\nThey are representing NAMBLA for free. That is the North Am Man Boy Love Association. A group that provides advice on how grown men can rape little boys and get away with it.\nWe have a free society, granted. But a devisive Anti American group like this should be put out of business.
973886
The Democrat Party has been taken over by the Left Wing.\nTheir goal is a socialist/communist nation.
833908
Nothing meaningful actually. As democracy implies the pluralism of (many different) choices. During the cold war era communist rulers  tried to push the illusion that communist countries were truly democratic under the leadership of one communist party that took care of the working class and all the people. Nonsense actually the rulers only cared for themselves. The democratic thinking people in communist countries then invented the term pluralistic society and democracy to counter the pretense of despotic authorities that the communist regimes were the best democracies. It doesn't have much meaning now.
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Please!  We all know the definition of Communism in its true since, but China, Cuba an others are still considered Communist countries.  America is a Capitalist/Socialist country as well given that we supply benefits to the elderly and many, many, many other services.\n\nRepublicans like to label Socialism as horrible as if it were a third world country democracy.  Socialism does what a government is suppose to do and that is Protect freedom, and offer services to its people.  Does this not sound like America!!!  Most Socialist countries might pay higher taxes, but there citizens dont pay for health care, retirement and many others we pay a fortune for.  Many citizens in socialist countrys live better lives than we do in America.
291999
Most societies, despite rhetoric, are socialist to some extent.  Specifically, this means at least some central government control of economic events.  Look at most 1st world countries for your answers (example: USA or UK).  Pure socialism cannot exist, although you get some countries calling themselves "social capitalists." (If that interests you, study Scandinavian countries)\n\nCommunist politics are generally difficult to untangle from economics.  Theoretically, communist countries must be consensus democracies, but this is impossible outside of small, like-minded groups, hence actual communist economies have possibly only existed in small, isolated villages (usually 3rd world), where the pay is the same because everyone lives in the same hut and there is no currency.  Communism is utopian (a pipedream).  Otherwise, the best answer is by consensus, which would be nice, but isn't politics (resultant over conflicts of interest).  My best guess would be that ALL people in such a society would place conflict resolution and equality over profit and selfishness such that any conflict would be resolved out of not only a personal but a societal desire to avoid conflict.  (Note: small isolated villages also have many of the health and sanitary problems that we internet users tend to lack.)\n\nIronically, pure capitalism is the same as communism.  Everyone is looking out for themselves: anarchy.  But it's an untenable position as some people will find that it's in their best interests to form coalitions for protection and self-preservation and - viola! - hello socialism!  If you want to see something approaching pure capitalism, enter a room full of maximum security prisioners for several hours and nothing to do.  This is why some people prefer the delusion of communism over capitalism, despite the fact that neither is realistic because not everyone is altruistic or violently selfish.  How can you tell we are not a pure capitalist country?  Child sex slavery is illegal.\n\nIF, however, you want to go with polical rhetoric definitions, please see your party representatives to give you their nonsense dogmatic responses.  (PS: Subtext is that the "communist party" never really was communist, but like our political parties, knew how to play on a popular lie.)
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Like stated before, US is a flavor of democracy but ...\nthere are many aspects which aren't consistent with democratic principles. \nOne would be the lack of transparency and games of interests. Guess you've noticed how many decisions taken by the elected administration have been done behind the back of the people they are supposed to represent and protect. Creating an atmosphere of insecurity, furthering own interests, limitations of civil liberties, etc ... these are signs of a totalitarian system, not democracy. Maybe some infrigements on liberties are necessary in the current sstuation but that doesn't mean they are acceptable in a system that wants to appear democratic.\nAlso the relativity of freedom. A very small part of the media is actually free because those members of the media that aren't subjects in a race for profits serve the politicians. The result is that media doesn't want to inform the people, it wants to give them what sells best. This way the people aren't free because they won't be fully in touch with what happens around, they aren't fully controlled either, just in a state of half-thruts and sometimes deceit. Biased info, govt cover-up attempts (like the failures in Iraq, secret prisons, etc), these aren't part of democracy.
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In a nutshell, Communism, at least as interpreted by the Bolsheviks, would lead inevitably to world domination.  Only after the world was under one governemnt could the utopia exist where everything got distributed equally and every one sang and danced all day, etc.  The United States, however, was and still is a sovreign nation not part of comintern (the Soviet term for the allied Communist states falling under the Warsaw Pact; the rest of the world referred to this as the Second World, however).  As such, the United States and its allies were seen as prime targets for Soviet spying and espionage with the vision in mind of subverting sovreign nations and republics the world over so that atheistic communism would reign.  Sen. Joseph McCarthy and many of his colleagues at the time fought tirelessly to expose Soviet agents working in sensitive governemnt positions, but many communist sympathizers slandered the good Senator and his efforts and so his name is continually defamed to this day.  A lot of thanks to a man who only tried to keep America alive...
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If this was really in the Congressional Record, it is not a record of what the US Congress was trying to enact.  It was put there by a lame-brained right-wing Congressman who got it from a hysterical right-wing moron group.  It was THEIR idea of what the Communist bloc wanted.\n\nCommunism is virtually dead in the rest of the world. I'd count only Cuba and North Korea.  And they are in no position to coerce us to be Communist.\n\nIf I were you I'd worry about us becoming FASCIST.  A professor compiled a list of 14 key attributes of Fascism, and when you read that, you may realize that the resemblances are too close for comfort.  The loss of the GOP majorities in Congress temporarily put a stop to that.  Generalissimo Bush has been declawed.  But I fear that a substantial percentage of the American people do not have the Fascism out of their system,  although they do not embrace the label, and will support such misrule again in the future.