Cypherpunk Politics

[Goran Novak]

On 30/01/2015 11:40 AM, Mirimir wrote:
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> With some exceptions (batshit crazy ideologues, for the most part)
> communism in practice has basically been kleptocracy. Ditto for
> democracy (whether capitalist or socialist). Powerful just distract
> sheeple in different ways.
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek: 
κλέπτης - kleptēs, "thief"[1] and κράτος - kratos, "power, rule",[2] 
hence "rule by thieves") is a form of political and government 
corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth 
and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense 
of the wider population, often with pretense of honest service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal)[1][2] is a 
socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means 
of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, 
money,[3][4] and the state; as well as a social, political and economic 
ideology and movement that aims to establish this social order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

Communism has not been ever put to practice.
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>> The politicians are essentially the same IMHO.
> In my experience, yes.
>
>> It is hard for me to tell which implementation
>> sucks more.
> They all suck. So it goes.
>