The New New Communism

Now that Bernie Sanders and AOC have opened the door to the possibility of Socialism, now come the nutters proposing Communism:

Quite who Bastani thinks he’s fooling is unclear to me. Historically, Communism has been unable to produce satisfactory supplies of bread, let alone wish the world of Star Trek into reality. If the products and approaches he covets are to come to fruition, it will be by the hand of the market, not as a result of his five — nay, five hundred — year-plan. Worse still, he seems to regard the fact that people have noticed this by now as some sort of chronic failure on their part.

37 Replies to “The New New Communism”

    1. My favorite answer for “it will work this time” is “Oh, so you’re a bigot then? You think you’re better than everyone who has tried it in the past?”.

      Unfortunately this will only work on the self-aware.

    1. It has been so since October 1917, and I have plenty of murdered relatives lying in the mass graves.

    1. Buddy:

      “…Losers, sneaks, rat-fuckers and cowards all prosper …”
      A Most Excellent description of the trough feeding underperforming & beyond fkn useless “Public Service” Unions to a TEE..!!

      ..wasnt it Karl marx who coined the idea of “unions”..?
      ..yea it was & 100% the root of ALL the Socialist horseshit perpetuated in the Western Hemisphere since the mid ’60’s

  1. It never ceases to amaze me just how stupid some people can be. I can only assume that they’ve had everything provided for them in life and have never produced anything by their own labour. I think “loser” is an apt descriptor.

    1. It seems like it is getting near 50%. Re-elect Trudope in 2019!!!!
      FREE SASKABERTA, FINALLY !!!!

    2. and that’s it. the complete and sufficient explanation; leftists scope, their view of the world, their horizon is no more than the room they’re in. they do not, will not and cannot consider the big picture. their leftist viral infected brains are not capable of gathering more information and knowledge and understanding and debating other views, ALL goes down the tubes.
      their thinking is locked onto a single point, that communism is the answer, without objectively looking at the realities of communism.
      they are incapable of it.
      no point in convincing them otherwise, the very strategy one is trying is THE one that does not and never has and never will work. they do NOT put their belief cystem (note the spelling) into the klieg lites of debate and criticism, because like, many if not almost ALL people, challenging said beliefs becomes a contest of wills, an ego driven test, at which point it is their bruised ego takes over the debate.

      etc etc

  2. Well I’ll give the writer for credit on one count.
    He’s not hiding the goal behind AGW this time, he’s come right out of the closet and admits what the goal is.

  3. “Whether he means to or not…” Of course he does!

    The starvation, repression and mass murder of anybody who’s a threat to the commissars’ power was never a side effect of communism. It was the whole point of communism.

    “Silliness” my grandmother. Children are silly. Grown men who abuse themselves to daydreams of killing innocent people for sport aren’t cute. They’re dangerous.

  4. The only thing “new” about communism (socialism without the voting) is the continuous fresh crop of newly graduated believers from that part of the institutional left masquerading as academia. A deeply flawed and immoral theory, no mater how many times promoted, parroted, pimped out in Green, and implemented, is just that.

  5. It needs to be understood that ignorance of the truth is no defense for leftist politicians, as soon as you promote the leftist agenda, you make common cause with mass murdering communists. Not knowing about it is their fault, not mine.

  6. Yep, “true communism has never been tried”. There is nothing new under the sun.

  7. How ironic that socialism could never exist without the wealth provided by civil society. They need civics lessons.

    1. Bingo ^1000
      Whenever I see a politician described as socialist
      Whenever I see an article about socialist platform planks
      Whenever I hear ANYTHING positive about socialism
      I simply substitute communism for socialism and immediately understand the true situation.

  8. The more this commie talk starts surfacing I think…”This is going to sink the democrats.” But part of me is also starting to worry…”Dear God, what if people are actually stupid enough to fall for this BS.”

    PS: I am losing my faith in humanity as a whole to make logical decisions.

    1. Well, the Russians fell for it, the Chinese, the Cambodians, Vietnamese, Koreans (ie. most of Asia), most of Africa, most of central and south America, most of Europe (with the EU).

      To varying degrees, the majority of the earth has/is falling for it.

      So note believing humans can make rational decisions, is the default rational position.

  9. I don’t know where or how to start discussing this. The contemplation of imposing communism on us brings up what I thought were unimaginative horrors carried out in so many countries in the past.

    A few thoughts came to mind.

    When I was young, I listened to my grandfather and my uncles discuss, at family gatherings, their escape from the Soviet Union in 1926 and the fate of his two brothers and his five brothers-in-law. Only one of the brothers-in-law returned from the labour camps; the rest all died in the camps. One of brothers had a son-in-law, a teacher, shot for his past indiscretion of not joining the Komsomol while in university.

    When I married, I discovered that my wife’s family had suffered much the same in the Soviet Union, and only her grandfather and one of his brothers had escaped in 1923. The rest were to experience the socialist utopia.

    After reading this article I also thought of the youthful executioners in Cambodia whispering into the ears of their bound and kneeling victims just before slitting their throats, that, “This is for the good of the people”. Are we going to hear this also?

    Because of my age, will I just be taken to the local jail and shot behind the building for agitating reactionary views? Will my son and sons-in-law be sent to labour camps, or, will one son-in-law, a conservative minded teacher, and my son, an about to be teacher, be shot for not teaching communism? None of this is beyond the realm of possibilities. David Suzuki and other AGW/Climate Change/Climate Emergency purveyors have suggested in the past I should be jailed because I’m a denier.

    Canada’s federal government and politicians in the US are working diligently to silence conservatives. According to them all conservatives are alt-right. Is it a stretch for them to start jailing us if we open our mouths? Oh, to be sure, all conservative speech is racist or bigoted and must be de-platformed.

    This agonized rant could go on, but it must be becoming tiresome, so I’ll stop.

    Who thought after the decades of fighting Soviet communism that it would be quietly gestating in our backyards.

    1. If the commies get in in the US, I am moving my family to Eastern Europe. They will prosper with flat taxes, no Islam, and private healthcare, while the West goes full Venezuela. You may not want to wait around. Beat the rush, before (a) they close their borders to Anglos (rightfully so) and (b) Western countries start putting up walls to keep their citizens from leaving.

      Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humour?

    2. Yuri Bezmenov told us all about the plan. Years before QAnon was even born.

      Infiltrate every institution, subvert it for the cause, demoralize the west. Victory.

    3. “Who thought after the decades of fighting Soviet communism that it would be quietly gestating in our backyards.”

      That is what Evil does, it gestates like a cancer within society. It sounds like it’s been with us at least since the dawn of history under various guises. Today we recognize it as Liberalism/ Socialism/ Progressivism/ Communism/ Islamism.

    4. when the shyt severely hits the fan, davieboy suzuki better stay awake 24/7.

      that’s the exquisite advantage of an assassin. they can bide their time, let the target get sloppy, confident, make a mishtak, whilst they carry on dropping by the cafe, watching a movie, a workout, good sleep session, etc etc.

      kinda like the way leftists do it.

  10. If it was somehow managed to give every thinking person a lobotomy then maybe communism would work, otherwise……

    1. Not a lobotomy; they are going the Aldous Huxley route. Somme, ie. drugging society on a massive scale. Why do you think all children have ADHD, or autism, or something else that requires them all to be drugged all the time.

      It is always ironic when you think about movies like ‘THX1138’, and how today, the people who made those movies back in the 70s are fighting so hard for the dystopian future they made a movie about.

      1. True, lets all smoke, eat and drink legal MJ. Idiots, each and every one.

  11. Advocating for communism is hate speech aimed at financially successfful visible minorities. It should be prosecuted as such.

  12. Communism has existed in the USA since the 1700’s…. The USA was late to the European front of WW11 because Germany & Russia were buddies, Hitler declared War on Russia and the Unions (Communists) went all in supporting Russia…. After the War was the Purge of Communists in the Civil Service & Hollywood… Not done enough!

    Hollywood needs MORE homeless folks in their backyards…They live evil fake lives and it’s time they spent more time in the Shit-hole State they created…Communism only works when everyone is EQUALLY Homeless.

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