<p>Firstly, communism doesn’t work.
Secondly, your idea is brilliant (no sarcasm).
Finally, use Marxism, as opposed to communism… Fewer people know this, know the meaning of it, and chances are that they are intelligent enough to not think “communist = fail” or whatever.</p>
<p>Radical Revolutionaries? Army of the People’s Revolution? KGB? </p>
<p>Just Kidding. First of all, change the name of your club. You really don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m sure you don’t want FBI wiretaps in your house. </p>
<p>Secondly, come up with a purpose or change the objectives of your club. Like awareness of Civil rights violations in China and such.</p>
<p>reddune: I think you’re very misunderstood. first of all, the government owns everything. Also, they control its people w/o consent (e.g. forced isolation during swine flu epidemic). The government is a one-party system, and all media is censored. </p>
<p>You may be referring that China is not a Marxist communist society. However, china is semi-communist, semi-capitalist.</p>
<p>…hmm i need to think of a purpose now lol</p>
<p>^Gle, restating what I said and then call me “misunderstood”–whatever the heck that means–is a fallacy. First off, China is not a “semi-communist.” It’s a totalitarian government with state-own corporations along side capitalism. A better term for it is “state capitalism” (borrowed from Ian Bremmer’s article in Foreign Affairs). Second, when did I ever contest that the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t control the media and rule without their people’s consent or that China isn’t a one-party system? Why are you restating what is already given? That doesn’t make an argument. It’s like me claiming that cloud causes rain and you stating that the sky is blue when there is no cloud…So? If you are calling the current Chinese government a communist one, even a “semi-communist one,” then you will have to define what that communism mean. And as I stated in the previous, which I wish you read a little more carefully, it doesn’t fit in any known communist philosophy. Cuba is closer to a communist state as understood by the students of communism than China. Again, China is under the control of a Totalitarian government and not a “communist” one as understood by anybody who has actually studied communism. Totalitarian government can have capitalism and promote state-own corporations. True Communism, in any form, DOES NOT have corporations. Corporations are the antithesis of communism. Communism is collectivism and workers centric, not profit driven and workers be damn. Seriously, pick up the book I recommended.</p>
<p>I also want to add that capitalism doesn’t automatically equal free-press, happy people, and elections. It’s an economic system that works better with those other freedoms, but can exist without them.</p>
<p>this is a really dumb idea, no offense haha, but it will fail simply because you’re dumb for introducing the idea. no high school im america will start it, unless you find a really gullible teacher to advise it, and even then it will fail out of lack of membership. </p>
<p>to conclude, you fail.</p>
<p>People who avoid the term “Communism” aren’t true commies. You’re school needs a proletarian revolution so your club can rise to dominance.</p>
<p>Pure communism or pure capitalism doesn’t work in theory. The last pure communist country was the USSR and the last pure capitalist country was 1920s US. We all know how it worked out.</p>
<p>And what most people want to refer to is not communism, but socialism.</p>
<p>1920 US was not pure capitalist. Teddy Roosevelt was a big trust buster, and that continued into the twenties</p>
<p>Yeah, 1920’s US was NOT a pure capitalist country. The fed caused the Great Depression, not capitalism. </p>
<p>May be the closest thing to pure capitalism we’ve had was 19th century US, which was a time of amazing prosperity (despite the revisionist history that’s taught to us.)</p>
<p>revisionist history is exactly what indoctrination has led to. education has transformed into the mindwashing propaganda that infuses in us the capitalist elitist beliefs that we have. </p>
<p>it seems that OP doesnt really understand the difference between communism and socialism at all. starting a club without knowing anything about it is mega-fail.</p>
<p>I hate it when people say communism is radical socialism. However, Russian communism (if that is the communist government to which OP refers) is based about Marx’s idea.</p>
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<p>There has never been a quintessentially communist or capitalist government. That aside, communism is not the opposite of capitalism, please get that straight. </p>
<p>Remember, communism (not in the purest form) can coexist with a great deal of personal liberty, it is just that capitalistic forms of government are more conducive of this liberty than are communistic forms of government. </p>
<p>Dumb people don’t know what capitalism is and think communism equals North Korea. Ignorant people think Capitalism≠communism which is a radical form of socialism.</p>
<p>If you ask Karl Marx he would say that while Communism is the final and end goal, Socialism is a way by which society can achieve such a goal. It does not mean it is a progressive or linear movement towards the goal. </p>
<p>An example of a country that is leaning towards socialism would be India. Putting an “ist” at the end assumes that it of pure essence, which it is not. </p>
<p>Things to note. High taxes does not always mean socialism.</p>
<p>“revisionist history is exactly what indoctrination has led to. education has transformed into the mindwashing propaganda that infuses in us the capitalist elitist beliefs that we have.”</p>
<p>You got it all backwards. The government runs education- why would they indoctrinate us for anti-government? They actually teach anti private sector propaganda and claim that the government is the source of all good. </p>
<p>It’s just like if Walmart funded and operated a school, they would teach that Walmart is the best thing ever.</p>
<p>Great ■■■■■. Would buy again.</p>
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<p>it’s impossible to fit in two books like the communist manifesto and atlas shrugged for a casual club. the average high schooler would never sit long enough for AS.</p>
<p>^You are right about this but I have to add that the average high schooler would never consider joining a book club either, and very few would join a political book club with assigned reading list.</p>
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I’m not sure if it’s technically correct to call them “opposites” but they cannot possibly coexist. Capitalism is the use of investors’ money to fund businesses. Communism is ownership of businesses by the general public. Anyone can see that these two systems are fundamentally incompatible.</p>
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<p>Or any club with a reading list.</p>
<p>you yourself only have 93 posts, mister</p>