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[Pyth]

They would declare war on each other to get more land and territory.

AndCanada has certainly achieved things.

[Comrade Kal]

NO THEY WOULDN'T!!! COUNTRIES DON'T DO IT SO WHY WOULD COMMUNES?

Also, Canada has achieved nothing. Name me one major achievement they, or any moderate nation, has made. (Other than stuff like "won war x", I mean political achievements.)

[Pyth]

Name me one achievement your Spanish communes made. EDIT: Oh, cand perhaps Canada has established one of the best places to live in thew world?

Countries don't because you're dealing with thousands of enemy tanks, ships, et cetera. With communes, al lyou need to do is take out like... maybe 10 tanks. It's easier to take out communes than nations.

Edited by Pyth, 02 July 2006 - 04:51 PM.

[Comrade Kal]

Yeah, you have less to destroy, but you have a lot less to destroy it with. It's so basic.

And if you think every commune will have 10 tanks then you have a great misunderstanding of the system.

Canada has amde no great achievements. 'One of the greatest places to live in the world.' That's not an achievement... i'm sure some tribal society was a great place to live back in the day, but you don't consider it an achievement. Has Canada erased poverty from within it's own borders? Or saved other people from poverty in a different country? Or prevented a war?

The Spanish Communes created a totally equal society. That's pretty big...

[Pyth]

Well, maybe not like 10. I don't know, really.Military=Not my strong suit.

But Canada has:

-Stayed alive

-Achieved a very civil society

-Is a great place to live

Your communes:

-Became equal

-Got crushed

[Comrade Kal]

It's done NOTHING in the grand scheme of things. It COULD have done so much more but it's just sat there and went "Nahh... let's keep things as they are... i'm happy enough..."

The communes were crushed because they got invaded. What if America invaded Canada? That wouldn't mean the government was a failure.

[Pyth]

That's AMERICA.USA. SUPERPOWER.

The communes were invaded because of civil war, They got destroyed.

Oh, as for anarchist "law", who's there to enforce it?

[Comrade Kal]

Yeah, a civil war, and italy and germany... that doesn't constitue a superpower...

[Cossack]

Canada's universal health care system was once a great achievement, but is now in danger of becoming partially privatized by the conservative government (damn them lol)

[AOWR-Theoo Stratiotes]

What makes USA a superpower is:

A. We have the most advanced military in the world.
B. The USA and Russia control 98% of the world's nuclear weapons.

Oh, and winning both World Wars for the Europeans may not qualify us as a superpower, but it was a pretty dang good acheivement.

[CodeCat]

So while the US and USSR won two world wars, I guess the rest of the world stood by and watched?

[Pyth]

AOWR, what planet do you live on?

Without Rssia helping, the war would have went on FOREVER, with no way to land on shores without EXTREME difficulty.

Without the UK, I'm sure we wouldn't be able to reach the area.

Of course, without the US, the USSR would have to fight huge battles and would have:

A. Lost. This means the Nazis win.

B. Had a really long and expensive war.

@ Cossack: I. HATE. PRIVATE. HEALTHCARE. I voted for the Conservatives but keep public health care!

[Cossack]

I can't vote yet, but i'll vote NDP when im 18. I hate Steven Harper

Im starting to think AOWR is a Christian Communist

[AOWR-Theoo Stratiotes]

I retract that the superpowers won WWI.

During WWII everybody but england was busy getting their b***'s kicked, when we came along and crushed the pacific and played the biggest role in Europe.

As per "Christian Communist" I do not believe any kind of communism is the best kind of government because as I have already stated I don't think you can transfer power to the people without gathering it to one person for a while, and that there is no-one (or at least no-one who would get picked as the power-storage-house) who would give up that much power.

"All who gain power are afraid to lose it..." George Lucas, through the Star Wars character Palpatine.

[Pyth]

I retract that the superpowers won WWI.

During WWII everybody but england was busy getting their b***'s kicked, when we came along and crushed the pacific and played the biggest role in Europe.

As per "Christian Communist" I do not believe any kind of communism is the best kind of government because as I have already stated I don't think you can transfer power to the people without gathering it to one person for a while, and that there is no-one (or at least no-one who would get picked as the power-storage-house) who would give up that much power.

"All who gain power are afraid to lose it..." George Lucas, through the Star Wars character Palpatine.

Wrong. The US played an OK role, but the USSR did much more.

[AOWR-Theoo Stratiotes]

I don't agree; and either way, the only reason Russia was even there was because:

A. Hitler was too freakin' stupid crush England before he turned on his allies.
And B. They have the best defense in the world; their winters and their summers, which halted many armies, the most famous of which would probably be Napoleon and Hitler.

[Pyth]

75% of all German casualties were at the hands of the USSR. (I do agree on the stupid part though.) They als ohad the best tanks of WWII!

[Comrade Kal]

The point is, you were making out that Spain's war was a walkover. It wasn't at all. If you don't consider Nazi Germany to have been a superpower, then...

[Pyth]

?Germany never attacked Spain. That was Italy.

[Cossack]

What about the famous town of Guernica that was basically a testing range for German bombers.