It is ridiculous that "post-communism" can exist as a concept when communism still exists. --Daniel C. Boyer 13:15 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)
- Please let me know where. Which countries actually practice communism at the moment, rather than calling themselves communist? I don't notice China's leaders, or North Korea's leaders, for example, doing much sharing with the common people. Perhaps you mean Communism, the rule of a so-called "Communist party", something entirely different.
- In Marxism, the inevitable theoretical stage after socialism is communism. It will occur, Marxists maintain, after socialism "withers away" in some undefined fashion. As historians and journalists well know, no Communist country has ever advanced from socialism to the predicted stage of communism. Nonetheless, dozens of countries ruled by Communist (or Workers) parties are commonly referred to as Communist countries. This by no means implies that they've reached their stated goal: it only describes the regime in power. --Ed Poor
Not really. Consider as an analogy the Stone Age. The bronze-working techniques that marked the end of the Stone Age happened at different times across the world. So, some places were "post-Stone Age", without that necessarily implying that the Stone Age was finished everywhere. It *may* suppose that Communism is a transitory phenomenon, and so we have to be careful covering it with NPOV, but that doesn't negate the existence of the concept. - Khendon 13:30 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)