Do you think that there is an anti communist sentiment in the United States?

Question

Do you think there is among people under 18?

Answer 1

Yes. Americans are afraid of anything that they don't understand. And those under 18 seem to understand just as little.

I dont really think there ever has been a true communist nation - just a bunch of capitalist-monarchists who called themselves communists. Funny....Some Americans (and others) will say the communist ideal is good but not practical cause its never worked HOWEVER democracy is a good idea too - but we've never had a true democratic nation either and the faux democracies of our world have not "worked" either.

So hmm....whats more practical? A communist gov't to train the people into caring for each other so that eventually they will be capable of making the right decisions - OR an immediate "democratic" government which gives the selfish people the ability to make decisions on their own before they have been educated enough to wipe away the influence of humanity's self-destructiove history?

There is a reason that there is a minimum voting age in most nations - it is the same reason that communism is a necessity for a true socialist world - a world where one hand helps - not hinders the other.

Answer 2

There's an anti-communist sentiment for a lot of people in the United States. I don't think there's any more in people under 18, then people over 18.

Answer 3

Personally, I believe that the communist theory is brilliant, but I do not like how leaders have interpreted it and played out being a dictator. The leaders have used it out of context withuot everyone being equal. I look forward t the day when true communism can survive in a country. I am personally 17.

Answer 4

Probably...which is funny since there are almost no communists left. Waste of hatred, don't you think?
"Commie" is like a catchword for anyone the U.S. doesn't agree with (unless they're terrorists) and under-18s throw it around all the time without understanding anything about communism. Then they put on their Gucci Che Guevara shirt. Kind of funny.

Answer 5

Ah, confident, i think of there ought to easily be a sprint anti-Communist sentiment interior the u . s .. there replaced into this little element referred to as the chilly war that lasted approximately 40 years, and via that factor the be conscious "communist" grew to become corresponding to the be conscious "fascist." however Communism in American grew to become a fantastically unfavourable term via 1900, and "socialism" have been given tossed into that type via 1936. If in basic terms Upton Sinclar had gained the governor's race in California. yet i'm going to quote Lennon (John the Beatle, this is) "in case you circulate donning photos of Chairman Mao, You ain't gonna make it with absolutely everyone any how."

Answer 6

With the trade deficit with China reaching record levels nearly every other month, no there is no formidable anti-communist sentiment in this nation of ethical relativism. I am anti-communism as I feel it is immoral to trade with them, thereby pumping money into their economy and their treasury - funds with which they stifle democratic tendencies. By trading with the Chinese, we might as well have put the fuel in the famed "Tiananman Square tank" ourselves. Blood is on our hands wherever we trade with nations under tyranny.

Answer 7

I sure hope there is.

There are people who still think that a society like the one imagined by Marx or Leon Trotsky is possible - I advise those people in a comradely way to do us all a favour and keep their ideas to themselves. All the other attempts to create this idealistic society have failed – for the love of God enough people have been killed, enough people have been taken their dignity away…I’d say it’s enough.

It's true that communism sounds really great - equality among individuals, a society without money, without a state, without property and without social classes...everybody's got a job, we are all each other's comrades... As the French said it - Liberté, égalité, fraternité...or maybe not...As they say it: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”…

I’ve used the copied & pasted some fragments from this article, but it’s really worth reading the whole of it:
"For seventy–two years, communism in Russia waged a silent war against the human soul. Sometimes screams were heard from torture chambers deep in prisons and in detention centers, but mostly the war was fought with ideas and incessant public propaganda. Below the surface, it eroded foundations. Out of sight, it taught people to have a low opinion of themselves, as if they were incapable of nobility of soul. It ridiculed the soul’s capacity for discernment and for truth. Year after year, the silent artillery of communism leveled the inner landscapes of the soul. [....]

The denial of the dignity of the individual, the reduction of the human being to merely material elements, erases our awareness of ourselves as persons who reflect and who choose, who launch new and creative actions into history, and who accept responsibility for our actions. Unlike a horse or a cow, a human being is an acting person, an active agent—inquiring and understanding, deliberating, judging, deciding. In precisely these ways, a human is made in the image of God.”
(from: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0006/articles/novak.html)


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I’ve got one question for you: How do you, as a communist, apply the communist ideals in every day life?

Answer 8

Yes,and yes if they are educated.Sorry alex you are wrong.Communism is a form of government,not just people we as a Nation disagree with.The last two notable Communist nations left are Cuba and N.Korea.In both countrys the populace is suffering because of tyranical leadership.

Answer 9

I think there is, but not so much with the "under 18" crowd. I don't even think it is much prevalent until you get to the 30+ age range. There just isn't much communism in the world today, and they haven't had to grow up with it.

Answer 10

I am over 18 but I for one have no use for communists. I am an an un-ashamed Conservative.