<p>Should I join the American Communist Party? </p>
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<p>Should I join the American Communist Party?
I’ve been working out to get in shape to meet the CPUSA membership fittness requirements in 2010 when I will put in my application. Just looking for some feedback.</p>
<p>Should I join the American Communist Party?
I realize that its a lost cause. But I do support China. And the way I see it, America is so corrupt and decadent, that if I try to change things “inside the system”, I’ll either lose out to people more cruel than me, or become so evil myself that I won’t stand for anything.</p>
<p>Better to be a man of good character fighting for a lost cause than a successful goon. Look at all of history’s heroes with the exception of militrary men like Napoleon, none of them played inside the sytem even when thier cause seemed dire and hopeless.</p>
<p>I’m not looking for a history lesson here. I know the “Dirty little secrets” of communism, like the back of my hand. But I support the communist Part of china. What I’m looking for is philsophical feedback on what is a better life spent. Fighting inside the system hoping to work your way up and make a difference or fighting outside the system for a “pure and noble” cause with no chance of victory?</p>
<p>I guess philsophically I got 3 options.</p>
<p>Utilitatian- Work my way up as a DA or firm lawyer, get invovled in local Democratic or Republican politics and hope to rise through the ranks and make a difference.</p>
<p>Kantian/Stoic- Refuse to commit a wrong deed and just join the CPUSA and ride the horse wherever it takes me.</p>
<p>Hedonist - Forget about it and just enjoy myself on a mini-utopia on a hippie commune.</p>
<p>“Should I join the American Communist Part?”</p>
<p>One of the key features of living in a non-Communist country is that you have the freedom to join whichever groups you please so if you want to join the Communist party, go for it!</p>
<p>Ha, China is just about as Communist as it is a People’s Republic. Most countries that consider themselves to be Communist, aren’t. Some are starting more to lean towards me, being an uneducated American, would call fascism (which really is an overused term). A suppose despotism or dictatorship would be better.</p>
<p>By the way, I personally am a big fan of Bernie Sanders, the one socialist in congress. He’s certainly not radical, though (though neither am I).</p>
<p>Hey Great thought …why not…of course…you wanna try to in politics…but one thing Bro…Utilitarian- Work my way up as a DA or firm lawyer, get invovled in local Democratic or Republican politics and hope to rise through the ranks and make a difference.</p>
<p>The idea that you should become a lawyer in the US to work within the system to make it more like the communist party of China is really laughable. Seriously, move to China.</p>
<p>Hello why you join American Communist Party …any other party is there…By the way, I personally am a big fan of Bernie Sanders, the one socialist in congress. He’s certainly not radical, though (though neither am I).</p>
<p>lol @ you believing there’s anything communist about China. The main feature of a communist country, its planned economy, is absent in China. The Chinese economy is known as a “socialist market economy,” which is just a fancy way of saying that the Chinese government realizes the only way to maintain China’s economic growth rate is to manufacture stuff the world wants to buy–supply and demand, you see? As for the rest, there’s nothing ideologically sound about the way China, or any other communist country before before it for that matter, treats its people. A capitalist economy supporting an untouchable political elite reluctantly crawling toward some superficial semblance of democracy is as far from communism as you can get.</p>
<p>But by all means, join the American Communist Party. Because it’s nothing but an irrelevant curio tumbling through the uninhabitable desert of leftist thought that is American socialism, it is probably well-equipped to meet your need for philosophical discourse. I mean, the more insignificant a political party is, the more passionate its members tend to be about stuff like political ideology.</p>
<p>indeed, while his english is mediocre (non native?) he has an excellent point. Bernie Sanders is an amazing Senator (officially Independent, ideologically a socialist), but there’s a clear cut difference between communism and socialism. Socialism favors the common people, while at same time being pragmatic about it, something which communism fails miserably, whether it’s the USSR, PRC (even though know it’s most certainly a capitalistic society), North Korea, Cuba etc…</p>
<p>Socialism still allows for people to have freedom of speech and expression, they only limit companies on indecent acts whether it’s corporate abuse, violations of environmental, competitive, or social practices. </p>
<p>Would I care if US never becomes socialist, since the word has such a negative stigma here? Not really, but this corruption and corporate abuse of the system is rather discerning, particularly when it comes to things like Gun laws, health care, social services etc… </p>
<p>Holland is a model country for what socialism is and should be, and is most certainly more productive and higher quality of life than america. </p>
<p>I stopped reading at the complaints about the U.S. being so corrupt and thus you promote China.</p>
<p>Do you realize how backwards and ****ing INSANE that is?</p>
<p>A government that bars Google searches, forces a population standard, mistreats their workers with shoddy labor laws, etc etc and you think the U.S. government is worse?</p>