With the Democratic Party in disarray and the Left unable to organize itself into a coherent political movement, it’s a good time for Americans who oppose capitalism to get back to the basics of anti-capitalist politics: communism.
Communism is an economic and political system under which everyone lives equally and has equal access to goods, services and power. Socialism is a system that precedes communism, in which the value added by labor is transferred over time from the ruling-class elites who control it under capitalism to the working class that produces it.
40% of American voters consistently tell pollsters they have a favorable view of socialism. We appear to be in a classic Marxist final crisis of late capitalism, overproduction, yet the media and education systems do not permit serious discussion of alternatives to capitalism.
On “The TMI Show,” co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan ask: What is communism exactly? Is it desirable? Is it attainable? Can revolution be achieved non-violently?
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Stalin!
Ted, “Communism” suffers from the same problem as “Thalidomide.”
Thalidomide works on leprosy and multiple myeloma. It’s also johnny on the spot if you’re hoping for a deformed baby.
Communism will never overcome its branding. Clunky fonts on posters, babushka-laden Rosa Klebb types waiting in long lines for single-ply toilet paper and turnips, etc.
Swedish-style social democracy. Picture it! Here’s comes a statuesque blonde in a tiny bikini, laughing and holding a beach ball. And here’s her brother. Basically a walking erection with 1% body fat. He’s offering chocolate bars. “Can I tell you about social democracy back in my Ikea-style apartment where I live all alone with my king-sized bed and uncontrollable sexual appetite?”
The term Communism can’t be rehabbed, it’s a teardown at this point.