Do you think the USA can get rid of it's social and cultural problems if it turns into a Communist country???

Question

The most important principle of COMMUNISM are as follows: -

1) Equality among people, abolishment of Class.
2) Equal distribution of rights and property.
3) All power to the State
e.g. Land, Mineral Resources.
4) Abolishment of private property,
e.g. Land, Mineral Resources.
5) All rescpect and power to the Workers, both doing Mental and Physical labor.
e.g Scientists, Workers, Laborors, Farmers, Engineers, Soilders, Doctors etc..
6) Those who do not work, must not eat
7) Work according to Ability and Capability.
8) A complete class-less society.
9) There is no God
10) Abolishment of religious practices
11) Work in Compulsory

The great Soviet Union (the USSR) and China follow exactly these principles!!!!!!!!!!! The Soviet Union is alas, no more.

Answer 1

No, we can't. In order for Communism to work, it's been historically proven that several things must occur:
1. supression of dissent. This leads to the persecution of intellectuals, inclusing teachers, professors, politicians, lawyers... basically anyone who conflicts with the Communist party line. Usually, they're thrown into prison camps that make Gitmo look like a walk in the park.
2. suppression of art. Art is by nature subversive. Most of the great works turned out by Soviet authors were either written in exile or smuggled out of the country. Or they were never written at all. Or their authors were sent into the prison camps. Siberia in winter, anyone?
3. suppression of civil rights. If you don't supress freedom of speech, freedom of the press, etc, you end up with a political movement against the party. So you throw offenders into again, prison camps. My rights are violated enough, thank you.
4. suppression of religion. Americans may be wacked, but we're religious. Though I'm not for the brand of right-wing Jesus that seems to be popular these days, I do believe that a firm backing in religion provides ethics and moral guidance which lead to moral and ethical political action.

The Soviet Union killed millions of its people. Lenin starved people to death. Communism is not a Che shirt and rights for the workers. It's oppressive in practice. Perhaps in a group of ten people, communism can work. On the level of a nation-state, it's hopeless.

Answer 2

I agree with the above answer. This is EXACTLY what Lenin tried to do in 1917 and for EXACTLY the same reasons. It failed, horribly. Boris Berszevsky gave the best and simplest explination of why communism doesnt work. He said "Communism tries to make all men equal. All men are most definatly NOT equal".

Corruption and laziness would be rampant.
You would not be able to abolish religon (even Stalin couldn't, and he killed millions trying).
You could not abolish class (even in the soviet union you had rich and poor).

Marx had good ideas, but they could never be put to use preactically.

Answer 3

you could purely become an atheist if one bites you. then you definitely might want to discover the coffin the position that atheist sleeps in the course of the day and force a steak by skill of his heart to break the curse.

Answer 4

no because communisim doesnt work at all. look at history. it didnt work in russia, china, cuba...

check out how horrible the soviet union was and see if you would want to live there... see how stalin mass murdered his own people...

Answer 5

Things would go from quite horrible to much worse.

Answer 6

We could all be equally poor and miserable

Answer 7

Only if I could be the boss...

Answer 8

No, that won't work at all.