| makingmusic476 said: I question how storming a church would've gone in the U.S. Also, the potential results of this ever growing discontent with Putin will be interesting to watch. I'd be interested in watching the Russians give Communism another go if democratic elections remained in place. I feel most of the ills of places like the USSR, the PRC, and the DPRK were borne of their authoritarian regimes, and weren't necessitated by their economic system. Not to say their economic systems weren't without significant logistical and practical limitations, but I'd like to see somebody try the whole Communism thing again with the people still retaining control over their own government. And by somebody, I mean somebody else. Not here, in case it goes horribly, disastrously wrong lol. But I like a lot of the ideals of far left socialism and communism. People working together towards a common goal - the ever improving well being of society - with little emphasis on concepts like money and significant individual wealth. |
It would be very difficult to create such a society in our current global order. By far the most powerful countries in the world are crony/state/market capitalists and if a country tries to move away from this ideology it get's attacked in numerous ways (subversion, wars etc). So what tends to happen is the 'leaders' of those countries that try and experiment with say socialism tend to become very authoritarian as a way of 'guarding' the revolution or transformation of society and form an 'intelligentsia' which is really no different from what we have now. And as we know power can corrupt even the most noble characters and as Orson Wells put it so well, 'All men are created equal but some are more equal than others'.
The only way for a more democratic socialist type world to take place is if it takes place foremost in the most powerful and industrialised countries and spreads from there. Afterall Capitalist Liechtenstein is hardly going to take on a Socialist USA.
