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Supersonicman wrote: Bakkeri wrote: Supersonicman wrote: 180.95.18.10 wrote: Supersonicman wrote: Bakkeri wrote: Supersonicman wrote: Bakkeri wrote: 180.95.18.10 wrote: And also the Convent are the capitalists of nirn. In real life however I am a Bolshevik!! Wow a another advocate of Communism? I thought I was all alone. I know this will sound stupid, but what's advocate mean? To speak in favor for, or at least to be in favor of something. I am not a total Communist but I support the idea. Oh okay, thanks. Personally, I'm not a supporter of communism, I'm a supporter of democracy. Well i'm an American and you all know how scared we are of Communism XD. But don't mistake it for a hatred of Communist, everyone is entitled to how they govern. Im not calling you ignorant my Khajit friend but are you not sure that you are confused between True Communism and Stalinism, most americans are confused between the two. I know that the Soviet Union used Communism that wasn't true Communism, but I don't know the difference. But we usually just refer to them both as Communism, no offense. Communism is, to sum it up, a difficult concept to put into reallity. True Communism is democracy, in fact its probably more democratic than democracy because just about everything is shared by the people. Have you ever heard of the saying "Own the Means of Production" it means that the workers own it. e.g if you had a steel factory, rather than someone else owning it and paying you some of the profit for working there, the people working their own it, like having a share in a company. If you work there you own it, as well as everyone else who works there. Its kinda hard to explain. The problem with it is that its very easy to exploit this.

Stalin turned the Soviet Union from a backwards nation that went into WW2 with horse drawn carts into a superpower that rivalled America during the Cold War; in fact the Soviet Union at the height of its power could take on all of the countries in the NATO (America, Britain, France, etc.) By itself and its WARSAW Pact. He did this using Communism but not true Communism. He basically said "Well if everything is shared then who controls it? ME!" He was a dictator and he actually killed over 4 times the amount of people that died in Adolf Hitler's holocaust. They were all his own people.

However not all communists are bad. I'm sure you have heard of Fidel Castro?

Yes he is still controversal, but what president or national leader isn't? He was extremely popular with his people and held the position of, I can't remember the name, but he was leader of Cuba for over 70 years or something like that. He holds the record for having had the longest presidency.

He turned Cuba from a despotic nation ruled by a tyrant (who was backed by your America unfortunatley) into a much better place for its people. Unfortunatley the embargo on Cuba by America is still in place so its still a poor nation but did you know that Fidel turned Cuba from an almost illiterate nation into one of the most educated countries in the world? With over 90% of all citizens being literate. Cuba also now has more doctors per 10 000 people (not sure on that figure) than America or Australia. Yeah, I've heard of Castro, unfortunatly in a bad light. But he does sound like a good guy. But true Communism sounds like a great thing, though honestly, I wouldn't want America to be communist or other type of government. It's nothing personal, I blame American Patriotism XD.

I understand completley, I live in Australia so I wouldn't want it to change that dramatically either, its part of our national identity. I would like it if we could adopt some characteristics of Communism though. It could improve the nation as a whole.