Is communism making a come back in Europe?

Several towns across Czech, Slovakia, Poland etc have elected communist mayors and young people are taking an interest in Marx, Lenin and Mao.

Interestingly unlike in the UK there is not so much support for Trotkyism.

So do you think communism could make a return? I once read that Marx predicted capitalism would be the end of the world as we know it, and with the ongoing 2008 credit crunch recession that is happening gradually. We have seen our public services torn apart, record homelessness and poverty. Marx also predicted that within Cptialism are the seeds if its own destruction.

I think we are safe for a while, despite all the tales of gloom I expect standards of living are still in absolute terms improving within western Europe. Looking at things in the round, and over a longer term perspective, capitalism has not been a disaster.

What you possibly need to do is look at the longer term picture, nobody would expect straight line improvement in living standards every year.

The bigger question is possibly , how are Western European economies going to deal with the issues that are going to become more apparent re social welfare and increasing life expectancy?

(Life expectancy is a pretty good non financial indicator on the long term success of capitalism)

i.e. increasing now very slowly and will probably be on the way back down by the time our generation gets there. You may very well say so.

But you would, I think, expect a slowdown in the rate of increase, irrespective of medical advances there has to be a finite life expectancy of certain components of a human. It is possibly the shape of curve that would be expected.

I expect the main reason there could be a reversal will be lifestyle choices; whilst a decrease in smoking has no doubt filtered through and helped the figures on the way up, diet and exercise trends could I suppose impact and bring the figures down from a peak.

I wish we had the Iron Curtain and Eastern block again since it is more suistanble to the culture of Eastern Europe. There would also not be mass immigration and colonisation of muslims.

Marx is actually part of curiculum of every humanist faculty in Eastern Europe and it was never removed.

I wish we had the Iron Curtain and Eastern block again since it is more suistanble to the culture of Eastern Europe. There would also not be mass immigration and colonisation of muslims.

Marx is actually part of curiculum of every humanist faculty in Eastern Europe and it was never removed.

Only losers want communism.

Unable to provide a living for yourself so you need men with guns to forcibly remove money from those who can produce in order to give it to those who won't.

Several towns across Czech, Slovakia, Poland etc have elected communist mayors and young people are taking an interest in Marx, Lenin and Mao.

Interestingly unlike in the UK there is not so much support for Trotkyism.

So do you think communism could make a return? I once read that Marx predicted capitalism would be the end of the world as we know it, and with the ongoing 2008 credit crunch recession that is happening gradually. We have seen our public services torn apart, record homelessness and poverty. Marx also predicted that within Cptialism are the seeds if its own destruction.

And what stops you from being a loser?

Making yourself as employable as possible and working hard (+smart) without moaning about inequalities every five minutes.

Nothing is equal, live with it.

Ok so the majority of the working class do that. Why isn't equality possible?

tbh the interest in these dead ideologues is as important as the fad for Sherlock Holmes