My boyfriend's a communist

He’s a Marxist. Reads Karl Marx. Believes in the global revolution and dialectical materialism and eradicating the bourgeois. That’s a thing. That’s a normal thing that some people are, that some people like.

In my country Yugoslavia society as whole was owner of everything, we had free education, medical treatments, apartmans, vacations, bonuses at end of year...
Every factory, and workplace had workers councils, where workers democratically made decisions. Also we we were not been isolated from the West, American cinema, music and culture was very popular. Western academics like Jean-Paul Sartre was regular gests in Belegrade. Google about Yugoslava and Tito, and stop beliving everything you see in your corporate capitalist media.
Sorry on my English.

More than half of Russians (64%) would vote to maintain the Soviet Union

Stalin did nothing wrong

Would you be asking this same question if your boyfriend was a Nazi?

Well, do a little research. Want to hear about real genocide? Read about what the USSR did to the Ukraine in the early 1930s; seven million intentionally starved to death. Google for "Holodomor" if you want to learn more.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's writings are quite long, and it's expecting too much to ask you to start off by reading his books. But sometime later you should at least give them a look. The Soviet communists started off their rule by systematically crushing the native population. Anyone who seemed to be a little smarter than average, more successful than average, more independent and self-reliant than average, etc, was at risk of being sent to the gulags for a ten year sentence on phony charges, or even summarily shot.

Wanna hear about some real lunacy? Read a little about Bela Kun, who ran early Communist Hungary. Practially every right of private property ripped away from ordinary citizens; even ordinary personal possessions. There were even laws limiting how many pairs of pants and how many shoes you could own.

There are thousands of other examples, way too many to list here. The massacres at Vinnitsa and in the Katyn Forest come to mind, and although the truth about those was covered up for many years (both happened during WWII, and the US government didn't want Americans to be confronted with the fact that one of our allies was pulling nasty shit like that), the truth about both is now publicly available; again, Google is your friend.

The point is this. I asked if you'd be asking the same question if your boyfriend was a Nazi. Well, the Soviet Communists made Hitler look like nothing more than a schoolboy having a temper tantrum. That might sound like blasphemy to some, but it's nothing more than the plain truth.

There are four possibilites for why he willingly aligns with that.

One is that he's just immature. Teenagers do things sometimes just to shock the hell out of their parents and the rest of society. Hey, I understand that, I'm 19 myself. But c'mon, there are limits. And your boyfriend is 26, I'd think he'd be starting to grow up a little by now.

The second possibility is that he's truly ignorant of how bad Communism is. But you said he lived in Russia until he was 18. So he doesn't have that excuse. Sure, those things weren't talked about openly in Russia, but you can be sure they were whispered about.

The third possibility is that he's just stone cold evil. Maybe he's one of those who doesn't mind people getting screwed over, locked away, or even killed, as long as they're the people *he* thinks *should* be screwed over, etc.

And the final possibility is that he's just an idiot and a fool.

Whichever it is, I really have to question whether this guy is good boyfriend material.

Karl Marx Was Right!

Albert Einstein was a communist, and i think he was pretty normal and sane.

According to a report by the Pew Research Center, on April 2010, 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
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Nothin wrong with being a communist

Life in many former-Communist countries is worse than 25 years ago, especially countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. They have many social problems, including huge corruption, nepotism, and fake democracy.
Various polls in former Socialist countries prove that the majority of people, in Russia and Eastern Europe, think that life was better before the counter-revolutions and the restoration of Capitalism.

Tell him that communism might sound nice on paper but never works no matter how many times it has been tried. Venezuela, North Korea, USSR, Cuba are all failed states. And it is such a whacky idea that it was always enforced through violence as it can't keep running by its own virtue.

Politics is like a soap opera for the retarted. Ignore it.

It sounds as if you're letting yourself be scared by a word and a symbol and you haven't even discussed the symbol with him or you'd know it's not a hook, it's an oldfashioned farming implement called a sickle.

Ask him to explain his political beliefs to you and then decide if you want to be with him. I've known many communists who were very good people, which doesn't mean I approve of what communist governments have done.

Open your mind and you might just learn something.

On June 2009, a survey conducted in Germany showed that 57% of eastern Germans defend the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Stay away!

True Communism on paper is the best system. However, we've yet to see true communism put into practice. The type of communism we've seen so far has been very corrupt and totalitarian. Ask him which form of communism it is that he supports. If he goes for the latter, I think you should end it.

Is he really a communist or just got the tattoo when he was younger and drunk.

your boyfriend is weak.