Revelations about Pseudo Communism

Just yesterday, North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il passed away: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16261060

In comments of similar articles, you would often see people denouncing him, for example: "Good riddance, you tyrant"(Made up example). But many a times, I often notice extensions to these sort of comments, for example: "Good riddance, to this communist tyrant". That's where people begin to step the line of ignorance.

As a social democrat, I think people don't seem to understand, or even have the very basic knowledge of what communism is. Many of the "Communist" countries in the world, i.e. Soviet, China, Vietnam and North Korea, are nothing but pseudo-socialist countries run by fascist regimes.

Communism, as anyone should be able to derive from its name, is centered on "community". More specifically, for a wikipedia definition: Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, stateless and revolutionary socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production.

Anyone can proclaim themselves to be anything, but actions speak louder than words, these self-proclaimed "communist states" are different from Marxist-Communism. They are definitely run by right-wing fascist regimes, and not left-wing socialist regimes. They most certainly do not protect the proletariat, and most certainly do not support classlessness.

For example, The People's Republic of China, they proclaim themselves as "communists" or "socialists", but in all seriousness, since the days of Deng Xiaoping China has been nothing more than a terribly exploited hybrid capitalist state run by a fascist regime. Do you see the proletariat being protected from the bourgeoisie? No, the income gap inequality is glaring, there is obviously class discrimination going on.

Most of us leftists who would consider themselves "socialists" or even "communists" prefer the original Marxist-Communism laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their masterpiece The Communist Manifesto, one of a classless, stateless and equal utopia, not this Stalinist-wannabe fascist bullshit. So, people shouldn't be denouncing communism because of China or North Korea, they should be criticising fascism, and the dictators running the fascist regimes.

If they want to critic communism, they should be criticising the design and structure of it, but not blasting it based on "examples" like these.

Racism

So, I realise that one of the biggest taboos around today is racism. But seriously, I don't see any taboo in it.

The concept of racial distinction is absurd hogwash. Humans are humans, the difference in skin pigment and physical traits are just a result of natural selection, why make a big deal out of it? I mean c'mon, with working out, or tanning people can look just like any other race. People who say "Hey look, don't discriminate other races, learn to accept our differences." are, in my opinion, actually racists(not in the actual sense of the word of course, they don't discriminate). Intentionally treating minority races better is just as bad as discrimination.

Firstly, rather than "accepting differences", why not understand that this differences are meaningless? We should be teaching our children to be "colour blind" instead. It is because of the consciousness of racial distinction that there will always be racism.

Secondly, racist jokes are funny. Yes, they are racist, so what? The whole notion of racial distinction is ridiculous, we should just have a laugh at it. It's like laughing at the concept of religion. We are just making fun out of something ridiculous, we are not genuinely racist, in fact I believe many people who crack racist jokes are open minded and accept other races. You can make fun of my race, I really don't care. Ching ching chong chong? Pronouncing "l" as "r"? Tiny eyes? Yeah, these seem to be some general observable traits, laugh at them all you want.

I believe we shouldn't be advocating black presidents over white presidents, in the end, it's his/her policies that matter. So why does it matter if the president is Obama? It shows social evolution in the electorate, so what? Such notions shouldn't exist in the first place. In fact, the Cherokees should have retained their land and have had a president in the past, I mean it's their fucking continent.

And I would like to clarify, while I think those that advocate racial harmony are racist, they are still better than rednecks, as they stand for an equality that should have existed in the first place, they are gradual reformists.

I want our next generation to be colour blind and not racially tolerant. I want them to not be able to understand racist jokes. I believe this is achievable through an efficient education system.

Domination! Domination!

Hello, fellow humans. You can call me Domination, or you can call me Supreme Overlord of the Universe, Mein Furher. Either is fine, though I would really appreciate if you address me by the latter. I'm just making a blog for the sake of making a blog. But hey, I do have a lot of stuff to rant about, which is perfect to post on this meaningless blog.

I am born in 1994 and I have lived in Singapore all my life. General interests I have are music, politics, religion/atheism, rationalism and ridiculous stuff, I love ridiculous stuff. I am still a student, currently studying law(I can only be a paralegal when I graduate, sadly) and I have a lot to learn.

Politically, I am a liberal, more specifically social democrat, I advocate controlled markets and social and fiscal liberalism. I believe that everyone is entitled to welfare, and social justice is paramount, economic growth is secondary. I have a lot of idols, my greatest idol is Franklin D Roosevelt, who's liberalism and love for the American people is well reflected through his New Deal policy and inspiring speeches(i.e. The Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights). I'm also a fan of many political writings, such as Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Thomas Paine's Common Sense. I would advocate a Marxist-Communist Utopia, but I find it unrealistic as of the present political and social climate, thus instead, I advocate Social Democratic systems found in European countries(More specifically, the Nordic countries).

As for the matters relating to higher powers, I am an atheist and I do not believe in higher powers. I reject baseless religious dogma, and advocate the physical sciences, with research based on empirical, logical or observable data. Obviously I am not a 100% atheist, there will always be doubt whether higher powers exist, so I am 90% atheist and 10% agnostic. But as far as religion goes, I believe most of them are baseless and untrue, and thus if higher powers existed, they would be completely different from what humans envisioned. You might have noticed how I used higher powers, and not higher power, and the reason is simple, most deists and agnostics like to use "higher power" or "creator", but who is to say the polytheistic religions' concept isn't as correct as the monotheistic religions?

So, hi. Enjoy my posts, if you don't, you can refute me or correct me or something,.