Communism/Theocracy?

[AntiochusIII]

Theocracy is awesome. The world would be a much better place if every country was a theocracy.

God-King Navaros?

This is actually a hard question; but I think Ice's focus on the redistribution of wealth isn't exactly on the right spot.

By examples in reality, the "redistribution" part happens only during the revolutionary phase, which in any case usually implies that the society was so desperately sick that some bastards -- like the damnable Russian nobles -- really deserved to be "redistributed" (in a poetic sense, anyway; hear that, Katerina "the Great?"). After that, all hail the Party, the Leader, and his Rich Men.

If we are to look at the same extreme for Theocracy, though, I think I'd be more worried for this one. They rise so easily and maintain themselves easier because they don't merely propagandize for the brain, they propagandize to control the soul. God says so is certainly more effective in controlling the masses than the Leader who died a few months ago used to say so.

PJ: I think fascism is a very strange ideology that cannot be applied to real life in any "good" fashion. You see, it is an aggressive appeal to the most macho and masochistic of our essence. Violence, expansion, control, an external enemy, national glory, moral superiority, domination...

Just about the worst choice, really. The communist and theocratic regimes tend to have their occasional reigns of terror; fascism is a perpetual one.

They usually maintain a haphazard quasi-monopoly economy where the Very Very Rich Men supports the government in exchange for economic monopoly.

HoreTore: I don't believe the communist regimes Ice is talking about scores very well on the Freedom Meter, personally. And I'm a blasphemous damn liberal intent on destroying America for many on the right, too. You see, he requires an example of what happened in real life, in which the philosophies of Marx, Engel, or Bakunin are never really implemented in any effective fashion. If it's the ideal utopia then even I will go for theocracy. Why? -- ideally, there's a God! All hail immortality! *plots to overthrow God*