Why We Don't Need Another USSR.

[Monster]

While it's fine and dandy that US-Americans begin to hate capitalism after -- apparently -- circumstances of living have toughened for many due to war-related expenses and public and social system cuts, I don't think I want to see the USA turn into another USSR. We already had one of those.

And although, partially, of Eastern German heritage, with relatives who lived in the GDR, I hope I'll never see other countries becoming what the USSR became.

The USSR was big and powerful, and people had limited, but considerable freedom, and apparently were living quite well.

Yet, I still think dictatorship is not a good model of ruling a people. Even democracy proves to be corrupt when it shouldn't.

To me, there's only one way true freedom can be accomplished. And that is by using the capitalist system to create a world of unity. Then, money and regular forms of government could be removed. Local councils and no central government (which equals anarchy).

Doesn't that sound better than that old de-facto type of communism?

 

[Lil'Jeffery34]

Using all the good sides of capitalism and communism without any of the cons that come with them. Sounds a lot better than what we have now.

 

[Moose]

While it's fine and dandy that US-Americans begin to hate capitalism after -- apparently -- circumstances of living have toughened for many due to war-related expenses and public and social system cuts, I don't think I want to see the USA turn into another USSR. We already had one of those.

And although, partially, of Eastern German heritage, with relatives who lived in the GDR, I hope I'll never see other countries becoming what the USSR became.

The USSR was big and powerful, and people had limited, but considerable freedom, and apparently were living quite well.

Yet, I still think dictatorship is not a good model of ruling a people. Even democracy proves to be corrupt when it shouldn't.

To me, there's only one way true freedom can be accomplished. And that is by using the capitalist system to create a world of unity. Then, money and regular forms of government could be removed. Local councils and no central government (which equals anarchy).

Doesn't that sound better than that old de-facto type of communism?

Who do you think is tired of capitalism and is proposing changing over to a communist style dictatorship?

Public and social programs are socialistic/communistic by their very definition and generally the only people who care about them are the few who use them and those whose hearts bleed for them. We spend less of our Gross Domestic Product on this war then any other in our history, nothing is being cut back.

Life in the defunct USSR was very bad. The citizens lived in fear of the KGB and suffered with shortages of basic necessities like food and home heating oil. There was no free choice, freedom of religion and people couldn't leave the country, although many did defect.

Nobody's looking to change our form of government, nor are we loosing our rights in the USA.