Es Arkajae said: Because almost every country that claimed to be communist was or became a shit-hole in the pursuit of their ideological agendas



Communism is only a few steps removed from Nazism in the ranks of opprobrious political ideologies in history. And no one gives a shit if your precious little perfect textbook communism wasn't 'really' ever implemented in the real world. Because A) that should tell you something and B) The several dozen versions of it that were all sucked. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Warringer said: There are at least three nations left that might be classified as 'communist', China, Cuba and Vietnam. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Jet Morgan said: Because the U.S is strange.



Actually at least in the U.K we could do with a proper left of centre party to represent the majority not what we have now three right wing parties you can not tell apart.



Also why would Americans feel that Socialism and Christianity are incompatible the British Labour party started as a Democratic Christian Socialist party by the Methodists etc. Oh well i come back to the U.S is Strange. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Except the whole basis of Marxism is a highly developed capitalist economy such as those of Germany and the UK around the time Marx was writing. None of the countries who became communist had that; instead, they used the ideas of Lenin which basically involved shoving communism down the throats of the peasants. You might find that this is far removed from the writings of Marx. Not that I agree with him in everything; he was in favor of colonialism in many cases, which is really dumb.Officially, yes. In reality, only Cuba is really socialist even out of those three.Americans think Socialism and Christianity are incompatible because of the political alliances made during the Reagan era. Before the collapse of the Carter presidency and the wave of evangelism in that time, Christians often voted on a social justice basis. Which is part of why they went for Carter as much as they did when he got his first term. As Jet Morgan noted, Christianity is pretty much proto-socialist.The whole thing about right wing parties is just the global capitalist hegemon at work. Not a conspiracy, just the effect of the way capitalists' power has been magnified by globalism. In the US it's because of campaign funding; in the UK it's because Murdoch owns all the press; and so on.