Any DUers members of the CPUSA?

[Sean Reynolds]

I joined earlier this year, for all you that do not know, the CPUSA is the Communist Party USA.

Any other DUers members?

[JohnKleeb]

1. no but maybe I should join

but I am too moderate lol. Well Sean what are your political compass results? I get like -8 on both economics and social/liberatarian. I just wanna compare myself.

[Sean Reynolds]

5. Let me take it again and get back to ya'. I forgot where I stood.

[JohnKleeb]

7. all right dude

my results were
Economic Left/Right -8.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian -8.15

[Sean Reynolds]

10. Basically 9 even.

[JohnKleeb]

12. nice

:)

[Devlzown]

23. Is that some kind of test you took?

Do you have a link for it?

[JohnKleeb]

27. yes here you are comrade

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

[Devlzown]

29. Thanks, comrade.

Let's see if I'm Politburo material.

[JohnKleeb]

30. we shall see lol

maybe they will let me in the Comintern Jr ;).

[Kamika]

2. doubt it

The democratic party as opposed to what Rush tries to tell us is extremely anti communist.

You cant with a clear conscience say you're a communist and a democrat

[Sean Reynolds]

3. I never said I was a Democrat.

[Kamika]

6. no..

but you're asking it on a democratic msgboard.. :eyes:

[JVS]

8. It is a perfectly cromulent question

[JohnKleeb]

9. I agree

and besides :), I dont mind having communists on my side, my relatives in the old country fought with them.

[Sean Reynolds]

11. This isn't just for Democrats.

It's for liberal minded folks. There are many non-Democrats that post here.

[Kamika]

13. communists = liberals??

communists are far from liberal

[Sean Reynolds]

14. Oh? Please, do explain.

[Kamika]

15. okay

Communists are dictators and will pretty much kill ANY liberal, once they have power if you don't agree with them(or send to a labour camp if you're lucky)

Communism is worse then nazism in many ways, it sure killed alot more

[JVS]

19. I'm sorry, but I don't see any of that being advocated at...

www.cpusa.org

[Kamika]

24. heh

Somehow i doubt Lenin advocated he would kill millions upon millions of liberals/freethinkers/religious/other communists

Hitler hardly advocated he would kill millions of ppl before he got elected..

Pol Pot didnt "ADVOCATE" anything neither did Kim Il Jong or any of those countries

[JVS]

31. Ummm Hitler did advocate expansionist policies (war) long before he took..

power

[Kamika]

32. bs

he advocated taking back stuff he thought belonged to germany, i think it was poland, sudetland ,and austria, and he said they would be annexed. Hardly fought over and killing millions.

he never said pick me and i will killl millions of jews, russians, gypsies, homosexuals, and ppl that doesnt agree with me

[JohnKleeb]

21. communism is an economic system kamika not a political system

Stalin who you infer to actually behaved more like a fascist than he did communist.

[Sean Reynolds]

26. Wrong.

You're thinking of totalitarian socialism, NOT true communism. You're basing your opinion off of Stalin, Mao and other faux Communist leaders. In reality, true communism has never been achieved in the ideology sense.

Read Karl Marx, and you'll see what he envisioned. You'll also see that no nation has come close to what he's written about.

[JohnKleeb]

17. The communists on DU are nothing like the TV communists

:) alot nicer lol
btw my grandfather's family members, his cousins and stuff fought with communists in WWII. Good people :D.

[Kamika]

20. O K

What country was that? did it get a communist rule afterwards?

[JohnKleeb]

22. The former yugoslavia and yes they did

get communism.

[Kamika]

25. okay

so did you ask the yugoslavians now how they liked communism?

[JohnKleeb]

28. I dont know my relatives over there

but I can tell you this, it was a lot better than the crown ruling the people. In fact, the small republics were united for a while and the country did pretty good, remained indepedent from Stalin and the USSR. In fact one of those former republics, Serbia is in economic turmoil.

[JVS]

4. I went to their Office on the 5300 block of Penn avenue, it was closed

so no.

[hansberrym]

16. Lennon said...

"If you go around carry'in pictures of chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow!"

[JVS]

33. Lenin said...

"The hour of reckoning with the bourgeoisie of all countries is approaching!"

[ldoolin]

18. No

But their newspaper is sometimes useful and informative reading. As is the SWP's "The Militant" and the SLP's "The People". But I wouldn't join; Marxism-Leninism has already been tried and has proven that it doesn't work. If you have to pin me down I'm a small-S democratic socialist, and it's my opinion that Leninism was an unworkable diversion that set back the socialist movement by a century or more and led to such totalitarian abominations as Nikolai Caucescauism, Kim Il Sungism, and Pol Potism.

[NoPasaran]

34. Not the CP

But back in the day I was a member of the Socialist Workers Party.