you have all made valid points and belive me i am not a communist lol i'm just trying to show that every institution has its ups and downs none deserves to be dimissed.
also i have always viewd the community of the First Nations people to be almost communistic, (i know nothing about the First Nations, well not enough to make this a fact so this is just an opinion) but yes there is a hieracrhy but no one works for money or personal wealth it is more the wealth of a tribe or village, or so i have read, which can almost be similar to communism. and ye si know of trading and such but communism is not aginst trading for goods.
and just to clarify i am talking about First Nations communities before the Europeans arrived.
haha i know like i said that is just my opnion i know not enough facts yet
but anyway it has made for good conversations
i agree Democracy will always be the best institution in my book but it
doesn't mena another like communism shoudl be surpressed. actually a democracy can become more totalitarian then any communist or fascist state, why? because as a fascist leader has full control over life and death, if the peopel do not agree the leader will be killed or overthrown eventually yet if in a democracy the people wield absolutle power as a group no one can overthrow or destroy them all. for example if Hitler in a fascist state decided to commit the holocaust, he did but was stopped because he was only one man, and lost the support of his people yet if a whole nation like the united states in a democracy decided in unison to commit the holocaust who could stop it? short form another nation or several others. there is no limit to power in a democratic state the majority has full power if the majority of peopel decide anyone wearing blue pants will be killed. then if you're wearing blue pants you are dead but if one man decided that anyone wearing blue pants will be killed others can oppose this. and i know you are thinking, well if the people who wear blue pants band together they can destroy those opposeing blue pants and therefore end the total power of the democracy, not true for when that is done the democracy has merly switched hands yet still posses ful power now all that used to kill people with blue pants will be killed...it is an endless cycle of power.
but once agian just my ramblings. that was merly a summery of oene of my 2 hour lectures. what do you think? good bad ugly? it has some valid points but teher is plenty of room for disagreence, lets hear it.
"John Rutsey, who was a viking then, Geddy, who wasn't a viking and myself formed the band as it isn't today to patrol war-torn areas of the Middle-East and to incurr as many debts as possible. This we did with a passion."
- Alex Lifeson