Europe is too much of a soft touch

[Britkid]

Hold on let me think about that.........hmmmm.........na, I'm right.

Hence my point that the US are making the same mistakes of past...

Yes, and China is what, seven years away from out doing the ussr in length of communist rule, but how much communism is in China. Where are the workers rights, are stocks and property being flipped, are there great divides in social classes. Is England charging money to visit Marx grave. Where is communism. Why did Marx buy a private grave in England instead of having the party provide one. What happened to the great Marx. It seems he has become a capitalist in death. Have you paid the pounds to visit his grave. How much communism is left in China, and if it didn't move away from communism in its financial sector, it probably already would have imploded. You pine about Spain, exactly how long did the commies prevail there.

To me Communism is dead, the Communist Manifesto is a flawed document, Marx's strength is as a critique of Capitalism, not his (and Engels) solution. As you alluded to, what is happening in China is a further development in Communism, an interesting social experiment, that seems thus far to be working, at least economically.

As for Spain, although not winning the popular vote in the Republican sector to at first a coalition of the left (which they were involved in) and then finally the Anarchists, the money the Soviet Union was pumping in meant the Communists were the de-facto power for almost all of the nearly three years of the Civil War.