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**Riddler** · Subject: My profile Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:01 pm

1. What's your understanding of Democracy?
Democracy is a tool for manipulating the masses, which proves to be more effective than dictature. I think the modern concept of democracy is impossible, because it allows irresponsible leaders in the government and the idea of "power to the people" would not be realized that way. And the parliamentary system is corrupt in its origin.

2 What's your understanding of Communism?
Communism is a social formation which includes the abolishment of government, money and private property. I believe in possibility of communism, but not in its inevitability.

3. What's your understanding of Capitalism?
Capitalism is a social formation, in which the nation is divided into classes,.

4. What's your understanding of Fascism?
Fascism is a form of authoritarian capitalism. Not very stable, because it's based basically on the brute power of the leaders.

5. Make a list of the all human rights you consider essential
-freedom of speech
-freedom of writing
-freedom of assembly
-freedom of religion
-right to trials
-right to free education and healthcare

6. What's your understanding of Freedom?
Freedom is a state of "being yourself"(Sanskrit). Freedom could be collective or individual. Absolute freedom is impossible by all means.

7. What's your understanding of Equality?
In political sense, it's equality in rights and social position.

8. What's your understanding of a prosperous society?
A society, in which the people sufficient in material and spiritual sense.

9. What's your stance towards the environment?
The environment must conserved disregarding the technological progress.

10. What's your understanding of Socialism?
Socialism is a social formation, opposite to capitalism, and which can evolute theoretically into communism.

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**Zealot_Kommunizma** · Subject: Re: My profile Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:13 pm

Riddler wrote:

1. What's your understanding of Democracy?
Democracy is a tool for manipulating the masses, which proves to be more effective than dictature. I think the modern concept of democracy is impossible, because it allows irresponsible leaders in the government and the idea of "power to the people" would not be realized that way. And the parliamentary system is corrupt in its origin.

Disregards the etymology but is an excellent description of pseudodemocracy.

Riddler wrote:

2 What's your understanding of Communism?
Communism is a social formation which includes the abolishment of government, money and private property. I believe in possibility of communism, but not in its inevitability.

Well, actually money, per say, could exist in communism. So long as we use "communism" in accordance to its etymology. However, money is indeed a ridiculous tool inherent to isolationist economies.

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3. What's your understanding of Capitalism?
Capitalism is a social formation, in which the nation is divided into classes,.

By that definition Monarchy is a form of capitalism, Theocracy is a form of capitalism.

I guess you should be a bit more specific.

Riddler wrote:

4. What's your understanding of Fascism?
Fascism is a form of authoritarian capitalism. Not very stable, because it's based basically on the brute power of the leaders.

By this definition all forms of capitalism are fascism to some degree.

Riddler wrote:

5. Make a list of the all human rights you consider essential
-freedom of speech
-freedom of writing
-freedom of assembly
-freedom of religion
-right to trials
-right to free education and healthcare

I believe no human or smaller-than-the-total group of humans has faculty to delimit others' rights.

Riddler wrote:

6. What's your understanding of Freedom?
Freedom is a state of "being yourself"(Sanskrit). Freedom could be collective or individual. Absolute freedom is impossible by all means.

To some extent, agree.

Riddler wrote:

8. What's your understanding of a prosperous society?
A society, in which the people sufficient in material and spiritual sense.

Nice one.

Riddler wrote:

9. What's your stance towards the environment?
The environment must conserved disregarding the technological progress.

To some extent I agree. We should definitely take care of nature's integrity... after all technology comes from it too.

Riddler wrote:

10. What's your understanding of Socialism?
Socialism is a social formation, opposite to capitalism, and which can evolute theoretically into communism.

Leninist understanding. Disregard of etymology.

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**Riddler** · Subject: Re: My profile Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:01 pm

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

Disregards the etymology but is an excellent description of pseudodemocracy.

Ethymology doesn't means much, because the word is greatly discredited. Even by the Greeks themselves - they didn't actually had democracy because of the slavery and sexual inequality.

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

By that definition Monarchy is a form of capitalism, Theocracy is a form of capitalism.

Monarchy and theocracy have something between classes and castes (a peasant would never become a nobleman).

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

By this definition all forms of capitalism are fascism to some degree.

I said that fascism is authoritarian capitalism. The most common form of capitalism is democratic, like in all western countries. It is more stable, because the brute force in it is replaced by the manipulation of masses.

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

I believe no human or smaller-than-the-total group of humans has faculty to delimit others' rights.

Where did I said about delimitation?

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**Zealot_Kommunizma** · Subject: Re: My profile Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:22 pm

Riddler wrote:

Ethymology doesn't means much, because the word is greatly discredited. Even by the Greeks themselves - they didn't actually had democracy because of the slavery and sexual inequality.

Etymology is all when talking about old concepts. As you say Greeks didn't have democracy and that's my point.

Riddler wrote:

Monarchy and theocracy have something between classes and castes (a peasant would never become a nobleman).

Not true and Pushkin is a notable proof of that.

The organization is arbitrarily determined by the ruling classes so it's not impossible for a peasant or a slave to become a nobleman.

Riddler wrote:

I said that fascism is authoritarian capitalism. The most common form of capitalism is democratic, like in all western countries. It is more stable, because the brute force in it is replaced by the manipulation of masses.

What is not authoritarian about the enforcement of property rights?

Riddler wrote:

Where did I said about delimitation?

If you believe in the concept "human rights", you imply that you believe there are humans with the faculty of delimiting others' freedom, thus imposing "rights".

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