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One of the things that makes this accusation so insane is that there are dozens of countries in the world with publicly operated national electricity distribution networks.

If public ownership of the electricity distribution network is an identifier of communism, then countries like Denmark, France, Finland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden are all communist countries. Even various states and regions of the United States are a bunch of communists too.

Surely it's time for people to accept that they're guilty of mindlessly spewing toxic political diarrhea if their definition of "communism" is so dysfunctional that it defines Texas as a communist state because their electricity transmission grid is run as a not-for-profit entity which is accountable to the Texas legislature?

As a result of the Tory privatisation in 1990, and subsequent sales and sell-offs, one of the biggest stakeholders in the UK's national electricity transmission grid is now the Chinese state (through their CIC sovereign wealth fund)!

So anyone accusing Corbyn of "communism" for wanting to renationalise the national grid so that it can be used for the benefit of the British people and the British economy, is actually arguing that taking control of our public infrastructure out of the hands of the Chinese communists is some kind of evil communist plot!

The fact that so many people are parroting this kind of extreme-right propaganda nonsense about Corbyn's plan for the energy market just goes to show how easily programmed people are, and how irrelevant facts have become in modern political discourse.

If you tell them that Jeremy Corbyn's public ownership policy is "communism" they'll shriek and wail until they're blue in the face in favour of keeping things the way they are, and allowing the Chinese state to continue to own a significant stake in the UK energy distribution network!

It's both fascinating and terrifying how stupid people can be.

It's fascinating that these political sleepwalkers can be convinced to support foreign communists actually owning UK infrastructure simply by telling them that opposition to communist ownership is ... err ... communism!

It's terrifying because these deluded idiots are going to flock to the polls in their millions to vote for the Tories, and enable them to continue flogging off our public assets at bargain basement prices, to literally anyone who wants to buy them, including communist China.

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State operated energy grids are not "communism" - NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LOLS (blog)

Currently, hundreds of thousands are protesting in Venezuela due to government corruption, a lack of necessary resources and the collapse of the economy. North Korea faces pressure as escalating tensions involving the presence of U.S. warships near its waters yielded threats of war. Chinas government while communist in structure and function depends on the capitalistic consumption of its cheap goods, and allows the free market to influence and sustain its economy. Even Cuba has opened to the U.S., with the previous embargo being repealed and active trade restored between nations. These events in the eyes of the younger and older generations seem familiar, as they reflect on the recent history of other nations before them most notably the Soviet Union. When new reforms or revolts in these nations come, they act as an unwavering evidence that communism is unstable, and deprives its people of the rights and sustenance they deserve. Wherever communism is or has been its collapse has yielded a new hope for those living in current or post-communist nations.

Communism originally started as a ideology to represent downtrodden workers; but over the past several decades, it morphed into the workers nightmare. The conditions in which the working class lived not to mention the slim middle class that existed were so abysmal that they became a representation of common communist life. Lack of resources, goods that expired or deteriorated quickly, government corruption and the condition of civil liberties in communist countries what few existed all became common experiences of those living in said countries.

The cultural and social conflict communism created in countries that were partially occupied or invaded by the Soviet Union were substantial as well. To this day, echoes of the Vietnam War still affects U.S. veterans, Foreign Service members and Vietnamese refugees. While Vietnam has become more open to capitalist societies and consumerism, the state is still controlled by the same party and some of the same people that were part of that conflict.

There are other examples of the lingering effects of communist interference as well. For instance, the separation of families between East and West Germany resulted in heartbreak for many, and those who tried to escape or defect were often captured or shot. Another instance is the cultural changes that have taken place in the Korean peninsula, such as the gradual change in regional dialect and accent in the Korean language between north and south of the DMZ.

However, it seems that these nations are having a change of heart. While revolution may not come violently or even as a sudden event, the ability for governments to accept the free market even if gradually by allowing restricted enterprise is daunting to those who support it. In many ways, its why nations like China and Vietnam have existed for so long with communist governments, as it allows for the quality of living and average income to increase, as well as makes these nations part of a larger global marketplace. As these countries expand their economies, it is hoped that there will be a further push to promote civil rights such as freedom of speech, press and protection from legal injustice.

Once an ideological foe of the U.S. and its allies, communist nations seem to be liberalizing their relations to its former enemies. The current events unfolding in the remaining communist nations prove that this ideology as a form of governance cannot sustain itself, and that the survival of any nation is dependent on the free market and other forms of democratic government.

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Not a bang but a whimper: Communism is dying for good - The Ledger

Andrew Murray quit the hard-left party last December to join Labour

A CAMPAIGNING Communist who has praised Stalin and North Korea has been drafted into Jeremy Corbyns Election team.

Andrew Murray has been seconded from his day job as chief of staff to Unite chief Len McCluskey.

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TJust two years ago he wrote: Communism still represents in my view a society worth working towards.

In a separate piece he also suggested the apparent Russian invasion of Ukraine was a sign the world order is breathing at last.

The militant only quit the Communist Party of Britain to rejoin Labour five months ago.

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His Unite office is thought to still have a picture of Lenin on the wall.

Labour sources yesterday insisted Mr Murray was not running the Election campaign but said had been brought in as a grown up given his experience of running Britains biggest union.

His daughter Laura was hired as a 40,000 a year personal adviser to Mr Corbyn last summer.

Challenged yesterday, Mr Corbyn insisted Mr Murray was a person with enormous abilities and professionalism with special skills.

But one exasperated MP said: I dont know where to start.

Mr Murray joined Morning Star as a political reporter at 19. He also worked briefly for the Soviet Novosti news agency.

A book on the Communist Party a decade ago by Francis Beckett described Mr Murray as extremely rigid and sectarian.

He added: Murray and the Straight Left people were more extreme than most of the Stalinists I knew. The Stalinists were known as tankies, but Murrays lot were super-tankies.

He chaired the Stop the War Coalition for a decade until 2011 and again from 2015 to 2016.

He has previously blamed Western foreign policy for contributing to the cycle of violence that fuelled the Paris attacks by IS.

The actions of the Charlie Hebdo terrorists were minute compared to historic imperialism. He described the IS march across Iraq as stunning.

Over a decade ago he said the Communist Party had solidarity with the peoples Korea.

And on the eve of the 120th anniversary of birth of Josef Stalin he defended the tyrants rule and quoted Nikita Khruschev, who said that against imperalists we are all Stalinists.

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Last week the Communist Party said they would not be standing ANY candidates on June 8 because they want to support Jeremy Corbyn.

Theyurged their followers to back Labour as the first step towards establishing a left-led Government.

Today Mr Corbyn pledged a 37 billion NHS spending spree to revamp A&Es and slash waiting lists.

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Canada Free Press

Democrats Love Affair With Communism Canada Free Press A bill narrowly passed the house in California, repealing part of the law enacted during the Cold War era in our country's history when communists were really active and infiltrating our government, attempting to overthrow it. The bill proposed to ...

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Liberal elitists frequently question Donald Trumps suitability for high office. Snobbishly they suggest he lacks the education, the knowledge, the grounding in political and economic theory to make a success of his presidency.

Time and again, however, the great man proves that, beneath the showmanship and braggadocio, there lies an acute and pioneering intellect.

Only this week, for example, he invented Keynesian economics.

Have you heard the expression priming the pump before? the President of the United States of America asked a reporter from The Economist, while explaining his idea to stimulate growth by temporarily increasing the deficit. I came up with it a couple of days ago, and I thought it was good.

But priming the pump isnt Mr Trumps only contribution to the political lexicon. Here, exclusively in the Telegraph,he reveals the other radical ideas with which he intends...

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