Do you think communism will begin to reassert itself in the world...?? rise up workers...?

Answer 1

Yes, throughtout history, capitalism eventually fails. The reasons (a famous historian told me this once when I was doing research for the National Science Foundation) is that what always tends to result from capitalist economics is the destruction of the middle class. The gap between the rich and poor eventually gets so large that the masses revolt.

It's just basic human nature that ends up causing the destruction. You see this in the works in our society today with 80% of the wealth in the USA being inherited. Yet, the wealthy for some reason feel entitled to it and tell us we just need to work harder.

Btw, communism has a hard time too because of the same reason.. basic human nature ... with some ppl not willing to accept equality based on being human but rather on performance alone.

Most hardcore communist/marxist believe in violence against those that endanger the structure. IE, Lenin wrote about the unfortunate fact that you had to put to death those who would not give up greed in their hearts. You saw this with the massacre of all those ppl in the Beijing Square in China. After the protest went on too long and was only growing larger and larger, China, being communist, .. well you know what they did. Just explaining the logic behind it.

Answer 2

I think now that Capitalism has been the ruling the west for so long, in some ways it's been lost that it is a political system and not just the way things are. The problem -certainly here in the UK- with Communism reasserting itself, is the disintegration of manufactured industry and the resulting loss of mass worker influence.

Who knows...it may happen now some other way?

Answer 3

No way. Communism is a nice system on paper, but does NOT work in reality. The trouble is that people have the same failings and evils no matter what political system they belong to. The main built in problem with communism is that the people who end up in power are the same despotic power mad types you find everywhere. With communism, everything's government. Which means the person in control of the government has control of EVERYTHING by definition. It's not a system where the ditch digger is as important as the president. It becomes a setup where everybody is as unimportant as the ditchdigger unless the Premier says otherwise. (no offense to the ditch digger). I could write a thesis length answer with other points, but that's the biggie right there. This will lead to many other reasons why communism is a silly way to run a government. It's flawed in it's ignoring the reality of human nature.

Answer 4

BeachBum has it right. Conservatives never seem to read history. There is a reason why Marxism and unions arose in the first place. It was the conditions that existed. If those conditions exist again, communism will rise. The biggest threat to American Democracy is the erosion of the middle class.

Answer 5

reassert itself? that's to assume that it had left anywhere, what many people fail to think about, is just because the soviet union fell, didn't mean communism fell. at least not what the world calls, communism, since TRUE communism has never existed in the world, because it is only possible on paper due to human nature. but china, north korea, cuba all communist nations.

Answer 6

That is what Marx predicted. Marxism would flourish once the Capitolist have run the impoverished into the ground. I don't know if it is true, but that is what he predicted.

"Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have differing amounts of material and non-material resources (the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with less power."

Answer 7

The part of communism where the government is the provider and decides who gets what, yes. The USA has most certainly moved and is moving in that direction as they now control almost every aspect of our lives. You can't get on a greyhound bus without government ID that remains the property of the agency that issued it.

Answer 8

Commnism will spread.. not necessarily reassert itself. Communist China, for example, has spread communism to the little country of Tibet... then to Sikkim.. then to Brutham and at this momentn, they are hell bent on taking over Nepal and they will eventually take it over. they have already taken over Hong Kong and Macau and their eye is to take over Taiwan

Answer 9

Corporations have consolidated their power so effectively that workers, even if they realized the benefits of organizing, would probably not be able to act collectively in an effective way.

Answer 10

Yes, it's happening in the USA with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.