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communist party

  • 31-08-2012 07:34PM
    #1
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    Is their still a communist party in Ireland or in any country in the world that is not run by a dictator and has access to the Internet!

    I have been reading about the uk in the 1970s and it really hard to understand how people really though revolution was the way forward and it had to see now how communism has so many adherence in Ireland and the UK in the 1970s.


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  • #2
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    help yourself to the beer...


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    http://www.communistpartyofireland.ie/

    http://facebook.com/pages/Communist-Party-of-Ireland/137649716249105?id=137649716249105&_rdr

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    TAlderson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭TAlderson


    In Ireland, you can always find a party... In Soviet Russia, Party always finds YOU!


  • #5
    face1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    There's loads of them

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_parties#Modern_.28Non_ruling.29

    There's 9 in the UK alone!


  • #6
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Like this one??


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  • #7
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Is their still a communist party in Ireland or in any country in the world that is not run by a dictator and has access to the Internet!

    I have been reading about the uk in the 1970s and it really hard to understand how people really though revolution was the way forward and it had to see now how communism has so many adherence in Ireland and the UK in the 1970s.
    Yeah cause the status quo worked out fantastic.

    You gotta love privatizing profits and socializing losses, fair way forward innit?


  • #8
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    I'm pretty sure nearly every country has a Commy Party. They're ubiquitous.


  • #9
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Yeah cause the status quo worked out fantastic.

    You gotta love privatizing profits and socializing losses, fair way forward innit?

    Whereas communism is thriving in places like USSR.........


  • #10
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭francois


    mariaalice wrote: »
    I have been reading about the uk in the 1970s and it really hard to understand how people really though revolution was the way forward and it had to see now how communism has so many adherence in Ireland and the UK in the 1970s.

    The CPI was a very small party in god fearing Ireland, it never gained any real traction-It was also generally believed to have been infiltrated with special branch, though the main perceived threat, especially during the 70's and 80's would have been sinn fein.
    There was a brief flirtation in the universities at this time with the mao flavoured version-again very fringe.
    Communists will argue now that there has never been a real implementaion of communism (apart from the brief period post revolutionary soviet union) but it is a story of splits between differing factions each proclaiming to hold the truth-That been said, the marx's analysis in das kapital of history and ecomics is interesting and can't be simply dismissed out of hand


  • #11
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    I rode an Irish Communist chick about 10 years ago-she had a red star tattooed on her left breast. When the deed was done she started singing some Spanish Civil War song and I fell asleep.


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  • #12
    Chuck Stone
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    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Whereas communism is thriving in places like USSR.........

    If you can call a murderous dictatorship 'Communist' at all.


  • #13
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    latenia wrote: »
    I rode an Irish Communist chick about 10 years ago-she had a red star tattooed on her left breast. When the deed was done she started singing some Spanish Civil War song and I fell asleep.

    Did she have any other distinguishing Marx?


  • #14
    mikemac1
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    Better dead then red!


  • #15
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Did she have any other distinguishing Marx?

    A hammer and sickle vajazzle.


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    latenia wrote: »
    A hammer and sickle vajazzle.

    Did you find that she'd built a big wall when you woke up?


  • #17
    notnumber
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    Isnt joe higgins still around? oh sorry thats the socialist party.


  • #18
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    notnumber wrote: »
    Isnt joe higgins still around? oh sorry thats the socialist party.


    Joe is cool btw ..just a joke


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