Why Has America Been So Anti-Communist?

@Freeranger But was that communism or oppression from a volatile totalitarian nation? There's a lot of clarity to be sought when it comes to the ideals and original intentions behind their creation/introduction.

@InvictusIndigo I could bold face it but.....Communism is all about repression of freedom bub.
Ask yourself.....how many have fled toward it vs. how many have spent their lives fleeing it. Pretty simple. You can paint lipstick on a fekking pig kid, but at the end of the day, that is still a fekking pig.
C'est la vie

@Freeranger I like the fire you have :)

"Communism:
Political ideology;
Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state."

Maybe a possible result of communism could be the repression of freedom, but I don't see that in the definition. I'm not advocating for it, but I'm attempting to hold civil discourse about whether we are really seeing the idea for what it is instead of something we're told it is.

I do think you have a good point about "how many people have fled toward it vs. how many have spent their lives fleeing it". I didn't see it that way before, and that's a really good observation.

Also the nickname "bub" feels like I'm talking to Logan from X-Men and I love the vibes :)

@InvictusIndigo you might as well be quoting bathroom graffiti...

what some naive idealistic college student thinks communism is and what someone whose actually experienced it first hand have absolutely nothing in common...

@wildbill83 This devolved from trying to learn more about it to just being criticized. This isn't even a discussion anymore. While it's true that I'm a college student that hasn't had much experience in life, the purpose of this post is to learn more, and part of learning is questioning where people have gotten their information or throwing what I learned out there to potentially learn more from others. But if anything I have to say is the same as "bathroom graffiti" to you, then you don't have to be here if you have nothing useful to contribute. This is why a lot of useful conversation halts nowadays.

@InvictusIndigo

@InvictusIndigo sorry man, it's just the way it is within me. I come from a very long line of Vets and....I'll just leave that there. Not trying to insult, but it is one thing to talk about it on a board, safe within the enclosure of one's environment, vs. those of us who left everything they held dear and enlisted, [i]from[/i] that safe environment to sacrifice everything to prevent communism.
Today, once again, it rears it's ugly head. There are times when I feel that, a bit of fear thru some muted experience of Kristallnacht for those who have become fascinated of such things from their gated environments might not be a bad lesson. I've read that freedom is just one generation away from being lost if we don't instill our values on our following generations.
Seems valid to me.

@InvictusIndigo don't be a snowflake when you get called out. You're defending the Communist view point with your college 'education'

@Stargazer89 It would be a "call-out" if any of it was based on factual information instead of gaslighting and opinion, but none of it is. None of it is even remotely an attempt to actually discuss anything factually. So there's no point in talking to people that just want to call people names simply because they don't agree with someone. There's no progress to be made if both sides aren't willing to hold discourse together.

@Freeranger You’re not counting the millions of people who have attempted to establish communist economies because capitalism wasn’t working.