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Dot-Communism Is Already Here
thanosk sends in a story at Wired Magazine about how online culture is, in many ways, trending toward communal behavior. Sharing and collaboration have become staples of active participation on the Internet, while not necessarily incorporating a particular ideology or involving a government.
"Most people in the West, including myself, were indoctrinated with the notion that extending the power of individuals necessarily diminishes the power of the state, and vice versa. In practice, though, most polities socialize some resources and individualize others. Most free-market economies have socialized education, and even extremely socialized societies allow some private property.
Rather than viewing technological socialism as one side of a zero-sum trade-off between free-market individualism and centralized authority, it can be seen as a cultural OS that elevates both the individual and the group at once. The largely unarticulated but intuitively understood goal of communitarian technology is this: to maximize both individual autonomy and the power of people working together. Thus, digital socialism can be viewed as a third way that renders irrelevant the old debates."
...No, in Communism, there is no private property and all property is publicly owned, and everyone is paid according to their need and not necessarily their ability. I'd say that's a bit more than just a political structure.
Socialism is a stepping stone towards Communism.
Whether it be an accident of birth (Superman)
Somebody save me, don't care how you do it just save me... How about some "the ends justify the means, the violence is forgivable, integrity be damned" propaganda?
a millionare who puts his own life and fortune on the line (Batman)
A millionaire whose rampant excesses are taking food from the mouth of the poor and oppressed, leaving them desperate and forced into a life of crime, operates above the law and brutalizes those who attempt to operate outside the rigged game with weapons that make the whole thing an exercise in shooting fish in a barrel.
scientist dealt a bum hand by fate (Hulk)
An amoral scientist who manufactures terrible weapons for the military spends his life on the run attempting to hide from them and not be noticed when they turn on him.
Face it. Your national heros are just as disgusting as your national ideology.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Developed during a time of great uncertainty and world wars, our culture developed personas who were both empowered and selfless.
...and Captain America is now dead.
Then there is only one option left...
We must nuke the Internet.
If you are a conservative, anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh is a "socialist". Anybody who calls Obama a "socialist" is either deliberately lying, or just plain ignorant.