Marxism is a very authoritarian form of government. And I'm not going solely on the examples given to us in the 20th century.

The first real example that shows Marx own authoritarian streak would be the International Working Men's Association, an international socialist organisation founded in the 1860s, and the way he and his supporters essentially booted out the anarchist wing under Baukinin.

And of course, the USSR was founded with the idea that Lenin & friends would lead a dictatorship of the proletariat to stop counter-revolutionaries from perverting the revolution, but eventually the state would wither away, as was suggested by Marx himself. Marxists call an anarchists naive. Well yes, but belief that a massive buearacracy would suddenly give up it's power because it would be for the greater good is far, far, far, far easier to distort than merely moving straight to a stateless society. Not that anarchism is short of faults its self. but this idea that Marx would have been appalled by Lenin's Soviet Union, I'm not so sure. He would have been by Stalin & Mao (especially the latter!), but that's simply because they were appalling human beings more so than anything else.

And chimp, that was, to use a Marxist term "socialism" as opposed to communism. Communism is the enlightened stage where the state can wither away, we no longer need money and just things for the common good.

You are annoyingly intelligent.

Thats the reason i think its impratical, because all communist governments have gone to shit, and ended up being no better or worse than their opposing side, as was seen with Hitler and Stalin.

People have needs, and a democratic society fulfills them best. I do believe that a socialist society would better advance, but people have needs that can't be fulfilled in that sort of society.

Well certainly not in the near future.

You can never have perfect democracy, there will always be someone who will want to get one over on someone else and will therefore change things towards their benifits in some way or another without the approval of the wider community. On paper, we should be able to get rid of Gordan Brown and call for an election, could we not ? (thats a question).

Get out of here. Communism is as bad as Fascism. Its the same. Look at Chavez. He started a totalitarian system all over again. Pol Pot, Stalin, China, Cuba, South Korea, DDR. Poland. The Chauchescu's. All examples of failed experiments and massmurders. Stalin killed more than Hitler. Even the lefties during the Spanish Civil War who fought against Franco were not better than the fascists. And apart of this: this so called communist system doesnt work, it leads to mass corruption and always to a secret police.

I don't seem to socialize well with Chimpanzees. And i'm sure no one would dare enter Wales, escpecially the English ones (Excluding me :P).

When you 100% English and you move to Wales it takes ages to fit in at schools.... I was fine though luckily.

Same thing with money. People, Americans in particular, believe money ensures choice and freedom, when in fact, it most often provides the exact opposite. Democracy is the illusion of choice, but the only choice it really provides is at elections every few years. Many Americans defend their right to bear arms, forgetting the reason they have that right is so that they can rise up against the government when they have failed you - indeed it's seen as unpatriotic to so much as disagree with your government in many places. Modern western democracy is such that we chose a person to make big decisions for us, so that we remain almost entirely removed from the direct political process. Every level added is another barrier to personal influence. It's all a grand façade.

But hey, it sure is comfortable.

Fixed :P j/k