Reality Rosa: A world where Communism works

JAW · 10-15-2008, 01:15 AM

Well - "communism" does work.
China works. Soviet union, DDR, etc -- worked for a while. They might have not been utopias where everyone were happy - and were not able to compete economically with rest of the world. But I think it's fair to say that they did get bad start and were at least somewhat isolated during the cold war and used lot of resources on it - and they still got the standards of living upgraded from what they were before, their space program working, etc...

More interesting question would be..
What is communism anyway? Is china communistic? Were soviet union communistic? Maybe not exactly. If not - we don't really have any real world example of working (or non-working) communism. So the locals of the "Reality of Rosa" are the only ones who know.. What is their society like? How does it work? If they define it as communistic what makes it communistic - and is it essentially different from our worlds China or the former soviet union and how? What makes it "communistic" in their mind if modern China or former soviet union are/were merely "socialistic" if even that?

And...
What are the problems in their society? I assume it's not utopian if not too dystopian either - if it's suppose to be both plausible - and interesting to roleplay in. What are the problems in their mind? There might be things that we would not consider big problems - or at least are willing to accept in our world - while they (or most of them anyway) might ignore some things we would consider unbearable.

10-15-2008, 01:15 AM	#10
JAW Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Finland	Re: Reality Rosa: A world where Communism works Well - "communism" does work. China works. Soviet union, DDR, etc -- worked for a while. They might have not been utopias where everyone were happy - and were not able to compete economically with rest of the world. But I think it's fair to say that they did get bad start and were at least somewhat isolated during the cold war and used lot of resources on it - and they still got the standards of living upgraded from what they were before, their space program working, etc... More interesting question would be.. What is communism anyway? Is china communistic? Were soviet union communistic? Maybe not exactly. If not - we don't really have any real world example of working (or non-working) communism. So the locals of the "Reality of Rosa" are the only ones who know.. What is their society like? How does it work? If they define it as communistic what makes it communistic - and is it essentially different from our worlds China or the former soviet union and how? What makes it "communistic" in their mind if modern China or former soviet union are/were merely "socialistic" if even that? And... What are the problems in their society? I assume it's not utopian if not too dystopian either - if it's suppose to be both plausible - and interesting to roleplay in. What are the problems in their mind? There might be things that we would not consider big problems - or at least are willing to accept in our world - while they (or most of them anyway) might ignore some things we would consider unbearable.