Isn't Communism dead? Haven't Marx's predictions been dispro

Isn't Communism dead? Haven't Marx's predictions been disproved?

Does the CPUSA believe in "conspiracy theories"?

What are the CPUSA views on the environment?

One of our main slogans is "People and Nature Before Profits." We are for developing policy that provides for a sustainable economy and a sustainable ecology. Where possible, we participate in environmental movements, and recognize and work on the environmental aspects of struggles on the shop floor and in unions.

We oppose drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and we oppose the use of nuclear power until there is a safe way to dispose of waste (and if there is no safe way, don't use nuclear power at all). We fight against subjecting workers to untested new chemical compounds with unknown health consequences, currently being introduced at the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 new compounds each year. We support the use of sustainable forest practices, which also are more labor intensive, creating new jobs and job retraining for laid-off lumber workers.

We seek to build unity between the environmental movement and other important movements: the labor, civil rights, women's, youth, peace, and immigrant rights movements, to name a few.

To build a better world, we must have a world to build on. The greatest environmental threat is that of nuclear war. We are for complete disarmament and for the destruction of all nuclear weapons.

There was environmental damage in the former socialist countries. Some of that was due to their efforts at forced industrialization, which put the environmental dangers of such development low on their list of priorities. A related problem was that in adopting machinery and industrial processes from advanced capitalist countries, they unintentionally adopted the capitalist economic realities embedded in the machinery and processes. In other words, capitalist industrial development is based on not having to pay the costs for most of the waste products it generates. When socialist countries used that as a model to develop their own industry, they ended up with the same skewed industrial waste model.

They did this for several good reasons—to short cut the process of technological change, to quickly provide more goods for their citizens, to be able to compete with capitalist countries. However, unintentionally, adopting technological processes designed to function in capitalist reality, they brought in environmental problems that relied on the ability of industries to dump waste without paying the social and environmental costs. To adapt, rather than just adopt, major industrial processes will take more time.

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[ThePythagoran]

Poor stupid bastards, how many do you need to kill before you will admit a theory that fails in practice is a shitty theory? I have met members of the Chinese Communist Party and they think Marx is a joke. North Korea is the last hold out and would fall apart at the united state's leisure the moment we figure the food aid isn't worth it.

[leewen100]

Communism certainly isn' dead. "Former" communist countries ALL have leaders who "were" high ranking CP officials...except Lithuania. It's not dead...just changed name to NEW WORLD ORDER. Do research! See: Pison Planet

[expendablepreloader]

@pesicool So you don't think there will be a "dictatorship of the proletariat" set up by a Lenin or a Mao? Communism can only succeed when everyone is dedicated to the purpose because when any number of people slack off or hoard goods for themselves the system starts to unravel. I don't think that any prospective Communist government in America will last unless it can control the actions of every last person in the country. Am I wrong?

[PesiCool]

@shaokem thought a few up to solve each matter, with a rather large group of people I am in contact with at the moment. We aim to make... something happen. I'll rest at that.

[PesiCool]

@shaokem Yes, there would be a direct democracy and laws would be formed accordingly. There can be many ways of achieving this and I have thought up a few myself, which might be implemented in a future commune... who knows? There will also be the automatically armed forces of the whole nation, i.e. the whole nation arms itself and prevents people from messing things up. This would, however, require regulations. There is a variety of methods possible and like I said before, I have personally

[shaokem]

@PesiCool Probably not what you think I have in mind. In some way there would have to be enforcement of rules/laws. Just because everyone has what they need doesn't mean John Doe wouldn't want more for himself. Not everyone is like minded.

[PesiCool]

@shaokem No.

[shaokem]

@PesiCool There would have to be a governing body of some sort.

[PesiCool]

@shaokem People mistake communism for an authoritarian dictatorship that controls every aspect of human life, tortures and enslaves it's people etc., etc., when it couldn't be further from the truth. It is the opposite and people tend to support the fascist ideology which is slowly murdering our planet.

[shaokem]

I say 360 to mean laws being enforced on everyone, without exception to who they are. Justice was supposed to be blind. But... not so much nowadays.