"But I do wonder where all of this leads to. Hitler would be amazed at the US's computer technology and I wonder what use he would put it to."

We already know that. IBM supplied the punch-card systems that the Nazis used to implement their Final Solution.

Communal thinking just doesn't work. Humans are not rational enough for it to be so... No matter how wonderful the caring, sharing bunch is, there will always be some asshole that decides that he has been left out of this wondrous equation. I speak from my own experience having lived in a communal house whilst in my early 20's. Everything was cool for awhile but after about two months it was pretty easy to see who the REAL movers and shakers were. It is usually the guy with the most to bring and his girlfriend that likes the taste of power... Humans are too brutish for this form of government to work properly.

You should try asking maybe someone who actually lived in a Communist country what it was like. It's not that hard, anyone who could leave, did. Oddly though, and a constant thorn in the craw of people like you, there are precious few who emigrated TO Communist countries. Not even idiots like Chomsky who openly supported Pol Pot actually ever WENT there let alone moved to live among them.

Funny, part of the US myth was that everyone living under communism wanted to leave but couldn't.

When exactly did Noam Chomsky support Pol Pot? (Words have often been put in his mouth.)

Lot's of misled kids can put words in his mouth. Coprophagia isn't a crime yet, is it? A pox on him I say! Whatever happened to common sense and the rule of law? The Utopian Ideal that they dream about exists on our college campuses and guess what? You and I and every other tax-paying citizen gets to underwrite that pipe dream as we speak! Hurrah!!

Something approaching pure communism, however, does exist in Catholic monasteries - which, within the context of that belief system, afford a beautifully ordered, pacific, secure way-of-life. Strangely enough, at the outset, this lifestyle was developed to evade "organization" of Christianity by Constantine. Monasteries were conceived by purists fleeing the imperial reach, who did not believe their faith "needed" oversight by a power-hungry Roman emperor. The very first monks fled to the desert in creditable revolt against a presumption of authority.

Only subsequently, with development and expansion of the Church, did Rome, in later generations, appropriate the monasteries, as well, and begin to tax them. This is the arrangement which many of us today consider to be Western monastic life. But it was not always so. The desert fathers were radical independents establishing remote, insular pockets of Christian life according to the prescription of their gospel. Hebrew communities of the Essenes, predating the Nazarene, displayed many of the same characteristics, without the influence of his ideology. Indeed, it is believed by many that Christ was a product of Essene society (Yes, I have read the absurd postulation that the Dead Sea Scrolls are a work of fiction. But this is a topic for another day.)

Despite eventual usurpation of the monasteries by Rome, monastic life still affords stability, prosperity, security and profound peace without significant interference by the Vatican. But please do not read these remarks as invitation to burden me with attacks on the Catholic faith, justification for which I am well familiar.

My comments are offered as a reminder that the corrupt, devious pattern of 'communism' which we have observed in international politics is not the genuine article. Similar fine examples may be observed in other faiths, all of which are a salutary notation that resources for Utopia have by no means been exhausted, when people come together for ideals excluding violence, avarice, exploitation and counterfeit schemes.

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I can hardly wait to read this book as it does sound fascinating. The last truly informative work on this subject --to my knowledge -- was produced, in I belive, 1958 by Herbert Marcuse titled "Soviet Marxism." In my opinion, for whatever that's worth, that book was the only work of its kind that truly tried to present the Soviet style system to Western readers void of Red-Scare type rhetoric. I believe Marcuse produced a truly scholarly book which I'd like to go back and read again. I hope this book is as interesting.

@GLR, where you got your info regarding Chomsky is beyond me, and Chomsky is certainly NO "IDIOT." Would that you had his intellect which is quite clear you don't! I suggest you read the great work he published with Edward S. Herman in 1979 titled "After the Cataclysm" published by South End Press. Read it carefully and you may be liberated from your ridculous ideas.