Apparently the Australian Communist Party is back, and plans to contest the next federal election. They are an umbrella of communist groups calling themselves the 'Communist Alliance.'
Are they serious?
Do they plan to make more sense than the Socialist Alliance currently does? Do they not realise communism stopped being cool at least thirty years ago? That even cuba is starting to cautiously step towards economic reform under its new leader?
The socialist alliance propaganda before the last election labelled the Greens to be militant imperialists. It also proposed the nationalisation of all industry AT THE SAME TIME as giving free tertiary education to all. How the fuck did they propose to afford that? Let alone the fuckup it would make of industry. (Dealt with a government institution lately?)
I'm at a loss for words. That people could still subscribe to an ideology that has been so totally discredited by as colossal an experiment as the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and Red China. You can't test an idea much better than testing it on that many people (1.5 billion?). The best thing you can say for it is that cubans and soviet peoples had high literacy. I can't see that much else positive came of it.
The other thing that concerns me is the concept of electing a party whose platform is the overthrow of the system. When you elect the liberals, labor, or the Greens, you're not advocating the overthrow of the constitution. But a communist party, by it's nature, seeks to overthrow the system. Look where that got the Weimar Republic in 1936... within a few years it was the Third Reich and was attempting to take on the world.
But there isn't too much cause for concern: in the great contest of ideas that is democracy, the communist party will be ignored as savagely as the Socialist Alliance is today. (At my polling booth, the socialist alliance got 7 votes out of 1200 cast.)
Gotta love democracy.
Are they serious?
Do they plan to make more sense than the Socialist Alliance currently does? Do they not realise communism stopped being cool at least thirty years ago? That even cuba is starting to cautiously step towards economic reform under its new leader?
The socialist alliance propaganda before the last election labelled the Greens to be militant imperialists. It also proposed the nationalisation of all industry AT THE SAME TIME as giving free tertiary education to all. How the fuck did they propose to afford that? Let alone the fuckup it would make of industry. (Dealt with a government institution lately?)
I'm at a loss for words. That people could still subscribe to an ideology that has been so totally discredited by as colossal an experiment as the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and Red China. You can't test an idea much better than testing it on that many people (1.5 billion?). The best thing you can say for it is that cubans and soviet peoples had high literacy. I can't see that much else positive came of it.
The other thing that concerns me is the concept of electing a party whose platform is the overthrow of the system. When you elect the liberals, labor, or the Greens, you're not advocating the overthrow of the constitution. But a communist party, by it's nature, seeks to overthrow the system. Look where that got the Weimar Republic in 1936... within a few years it was the Third Reich and was attempting to take on the world.
But there isn't too much cause for concern: in the great contest of ideas that is democracy, the communist party will be ignored as savagely as the Socialist Alliance is today. (At my polling booth, the socialist alliance got 7 votes out of 1200 cast.)
Gotta love democracy.