Do you think the united states would survive as a communist country?

Question

After world war 2, and before the cold war, if the United States turned into a communist country like China, do you think it would do well?

Answer 1

No, because communism doesn't work as an economic system. The socialism we live with is bad enough.

Answer 2

Communism is anti-progress, so America would have likely found itself polluted beyond belief, technologically backward, and just simply even worse off.

Under Communism, technology wouldn't have advanced beyond Black & White TV and 8-Tracks.

America had a strong wave of Anti-Communism following WWII and Sen. Robert Taft was almost elected president in 1948 (Dewey lost because he was part of the RINO faction, along with Grandpa Bush, Nelson Rockefeller, and other clowns and he narrowly beat Taft). He would have been our best president of the 20th century and would have shut down the New Deal. America wanted to ditch FDR's disaster in the 40s, but the Republicans blew their chance and by the time of the next election, McCarthy had embarrassed the Republicans. Sen. Taft (son of the president that was even more Socialist than Teddy Roosevelt) was the leader of the Republican Congress during that time and probably would have beat Truman in a landslide.

Answer 3

Look at where Russia is today, how have they done? How about North Korea? Any of the other former Soviet republics or satellites? The only successful "communist" country has been China only because they have opened the door to some capitalistic ideas within their nation. Pure communism or pure capitalism in any country would ensure that country would never be able to survive.

Answer 4

The US would survive, but we'd only be marginally better than a third world country in a matter of decades. Don't take our word for it (but you'll notice NO ONE thus far believes in communism), study economics and world history. These aren't opinions....they're proven facts: Communism/socialism does NOT work. In reality it leads to suffering and shortages of basic human needs like clothing, shelter, water, and food. Technological advances come to a grinding halt in all areas of research EXCEPT military/police applications....

Answer 5

Communism has never really worked. China, by the way, is Communist only in name. It has brought Capitalism in and is becoming more Capitalistic.

Answer 6

No, communism always fails. The modern day democrat party are trying to turn this country into a communist nation however. If you don't believe me, go to this link:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/archive/9/

Answer 7

We are not surviving as a Democracy?
Ethics are out the window!
Integrity and virtue are loss in crass gimme all I can get, Me first, and Any way I can get more!

Responsibility has just about died out?

To speak of Moral Values is the same as starting WW 3.

By the way, what are the tenants of Communism? How does that type of government work?

Answer 8

I know others have said it, but look at what happened to the U.S.S.R.. You have to study the history there to understand the answer. Look at the separatist states (Georgia, Czech Republic, etc). This is what happens eventually as oppression tries to move from one generation to another. Eventually, dictators die. Eventually their heirs lose power. Eventually a revolution kicks in. Eventually...

I'll save you a little suspense. The answer is no and it's even silly to think about.

Answer 9

A purely communist country can not do well. Communism and natural human tendancies do not work together. That is what Marx failed to understand, unless of course he didn't care.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. Communism only looks good on paper. But in practice it is oppressive and a dismal failure. I thank God I don't live under Communist rule.

Answer 11

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap