Quote Originally Posted by JeffersonBud
Want to know why a socialist party is bad? Watch the movie "The Lives of Others" (its a German flick). you can rent it at blockbuster. One of the best movies ever to grace the screen.
YES!!! Great movie actually... but as iamkowalski explained earlier, this is the society where everyone wears gray and in the militaristic society. This is hard-core socialism, and it is actually a true story.

When communism was first "invented", it was a great idea, and many people embraced it. Over time, we saw that it was great on paper, but just didn't work in practice (the only exception being Cuba). Now, who is to say that capitalism works either? We human beings have a problem, where we tend to do things for our own good, and not the greater good. This happens in communism and capitalism...

Thanks everyone for replying, and not letting this get out of control like some of the other political threads!