Can communism ever take flight again in modern society or is it a doomed ideology?

Can communism ever take flight again in modern society or is it a doomed ideology?

When we have the technological means to make robots that will bring us food for free, sure.

>Can communism ever take flight again

It never took flight though
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Interesting question. I do not think we can prestate the future, in the same way that we cannot prestate all possible uses of the humble screwdriver.

So I feel I cannot answer your question.

That having said, we do see a sizeable group of people with communistic tendencies. What will it spawn?

> again
It's kinda weird to put it this way. As an ideology communism never truly "ended". As an economy it was never built (despite all the "post-industrial" nonsense we haven't even fully industrialized our society yet).

> is it a doomed ideology?
Nope. What makes you think this? Pre-October nobody considered Communism a viable ideology, but look at all the Soviet republics that blossomed post-WWI, even without USSR backing them.

Today most new democratic states adopt some form of Communism - Kurds, for example.

Communism is all about class struggle, remove the working class and you'll have no need for communism, only communism you're gonna get from robots will by an angry replaced working class starting shit or angry robot working class going full skynet and running judgementday.exe.

Yes.

Yes.

Western society is ready for full communism, hence why the the guts of the last century were spent trying to stifle class consciousness as much as possible.

Communism doesn't mean what you think it means.

Aren't the instutions and power structures of contemporary (Western) societies incapable of communism?

>modern society

You do realize there are countries in existence right now which espouse Communism right?

Ok, so lets say that comment was retarded. Now: yous be sayin we could easily turn a capitalist country into a communism one?

Of keks, the toppest

Especially in today's society, you try telling everyone they are all equal and must do the same things and have the same shit as everyone else and see what happens.

The best time to have snagged everyone in to communism has passed and unless we go back to carts and horses - and even then it's a stretch - we'll never see it again.

It's a chimera in the West. notice how it's only dirt poor/ shit hole countries that actually try and utilise it.

Capitalism reigns supreme. No one cares about the meme of class wars and class groups when the divide in the first world isn't bad enough to cause suffering.

>that's what happened
Communism is unique in human history in that it was the first society for which walls were built to try to keep people in, not out. Communism (actually socialism; communism is just an utopia) failed. Deal with it.

No because Communism is a nice idea in theory but in practice it's the worst thing in history.

Most people realize this.

> t. indoctrinated ameri-lard who bit the red scare meme bait

don't you have some family feud or something to watch instead of being here? this is the big boy's table, you don't belong.

>Big Boy
>Gets jealous that people have more wealth than him

>you try telling everyone they are all equal and must do the same things and have the same shit as everyone else and see what happens.
do you even know what communism is?

Have you heard about Revolution, comrade?


> Especially in today's society, you try telling everyone they are all equal and must do the same things and have the same shit as everyone else
That has nothing to do with communism.

If anything - that's capitalism. Unless you have cash, you must use cheap mass-produced goods (as everyone else). And don't get me started on the whole culture of conformity in corporations.

Yeah, just not sure if its a good idea and what it will lead to

It'll loop back to relevance once the consequences of capitalism start piling up.

> Yeah, just not sure if its a good idea and what it will lead to
I'm gonna make a wild guess here: "instutions and power structures of contemporary (Western) societies" will get reorganized (or rebuilt from scratch, in some cases) with the intention of making them capable to support communism.