Quote Originally Posted by Ramil View Post
Печально то, что в КПРФ сейчас нет коммунистов Ну, тех, про которых я читал и смотрел фильмы в детстве. Вот я за тех, а не за этих.
I think this is true in most countries. The Communists in Western Europe concern themselves with things like feminism, supporting homosexuals and anti-racism, primarily..... not so much social justice and anti-imperialism. There are less intellectual people that are Communists. I can't take them seriously.

I have a colleague who says he is a Communist. It is essentially his way of expressing the fact that he hates the European Union, idolizes the USSR and considers Cuba to be a nice place for a holiday. But he is even more clueless than me when it comes to marxist ideology etc.

Some simply abandoned the ideology when it became unfashionable in the 1990s, some became cynics and stopped thinking it was for the better. Many people who might have been communists are simply more interested in computer games and beer than class struggle and unionism...

If some visionary came along and revitalised and revised Communism, then I might consider it. I still think it's the nicer ideology - but it's got some gruesome acts on its conscience and was eventually (for better or worse) rejected in those countries that tried it. Another problem is that Communists usually only come into power through a revolution...

I wonder what Lenin would do it he suddenly came alive in his tomb? Turn his back on this ideology in disgust... or come up with some brilliant way of adapting it to the 21st century and digital age....