COMMENTS:
IMO a democratic fascism is more appropriate. Fascism managed to solve to problems posed by both communism and capitalism, setting economy on capitalist bases and in the same time organizing society on socialist basis and allowing the state to step in and eliminate the inequality generated by capitalism, but without screwing the social relations by leveling people. However democracy is more suited to replace the autocratic ruling that characterized fascism.
IMO, binary choices help limit/frame perceptions to make manipulation of attitudes easier.
I put in a new vote.
"There are more than 4..."
You can define governments as whether they are controlled by the military and whether the economy is controlled by the governmnet or not, but this leaves out hundreds of other considerations. Politics is a very empirical (lots of factors influencing how political systems work) matter, though I agree the perspective you have taken is good.
'People associate communistic societies with massacres... BUT how many people have been killed by autocratic capitalist governments (that is dictators that support free marketeering)?'
Pointing out the faults of other systems doesn't change the faults of communism.
Sure capitalism has it's problems, but it also has an upside. Communism also has it's problems, but with no upside.
Pointing out that capitalist economies have a higher unemployment rate (for example) doesn't change the fact that communism killed 100 million people, does it?
some people just can't get past the old yes/no, good/bad, black/white concept. The notion that there could be something in between, something that combines aspects of both sides is just too overwhelming. are our minds just a series of o's and 1's? - I like to think I'm more than that...
Brings to mind the Moody Blues - "In the Beginning":
I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.
There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.
Love those shades of grey, those colors in between - that's where we make our progress, that's where we excel, that's where it is possible to have a society that we can thrive in rather than a society that devours us.
I just think we are doomed to make a lot of mistakes before we get it right. If we get it right.
No one has been killed by a dictator that supports free markets; no dictator have ever supported free markets.
The only moral system allows the individual to guide their own life without the threat of violence from the government.
corporatists
You forgot a C: Social Systems. You can either have an oppression of the poor by the rich, or a classless society in which all people work for the good of the country.
Nevermind, you said it in your second comment.
This ballot is useless, how the hell do you use this Kharma system to get rid of it?
in fact i think youll find that true communisim is ALWAYS democratic it is one of the principles of communisim laid out by Marx in the Communist Manifesto
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