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Why Communism might be annoying:

    Although in principle it is great, it is not at all realistic.
    They want you to share your stuff with others.
    Massive deaths as a result of party policy are regarded by their leaders as statistics.
    They ignore human greed and abusive leadership.
    Combined loss of life from the first 'Five Year Plan' (Soviet Union) and 'Great Leap Forward' (People's Republic of China): is estimated 36 million.
    Their name for the working class ('proletariat') sounds like a racehorse.
    They are quick to use fruity terms like 'bourgeois' to describe those who own things.
    Its benefactors are issued their own 'ism' (Stalinism, Maoism, Leninism, Trotskyism ...).
    Since Marx and Engels were Jews, it opened up another avenue to be anti-semitic.
    They undermined the United States government before, during and after World War II.
    They terrified mainstream America in the 1950s.
    Che Guevara, one of their icons, became a fashion statement.
    They made a star out of Senator Joe McCarthy who hunted them.
    Two words - Tiananmen Square.
    They are always ruled by an absolute and usually ruthless dictator.

Why Communism might not be annoying:

    The traditional family, hippie communes, kibutzim/agricultural collectives, sports salary caps and social security are forms of socialism.
    According to their ideals, a country should be run by a pure democracy of the masses.
    They believe mankind can be perfected and live in an altruistic utopia.
    They claim religion is the 'opiate of the masses.'
    They felt those who worked the hardest deserved to control the means of production.
    When they really louse things up, they eventually try to admit they were wrong. Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' denounced Joseph Stalin as a criminal and Deng Xiaoping's 'Beijing Spring' helped apologize for the 'Cultural Revolution' by Mao Tse-tung.
    More soldiers died defending it in World War II than any other cause (approximately 8,000,000).
    At the peak of its popularity over 1/3 of the world followed it.
    Like Santa Claus, many of them have beards and advocate the distribution of wealth (or 'presents') to the proletariat.

Credit: Captain Howdy


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 635 Votes: 14.65% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 381 Votes: 67.98% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1153 Votes: 54.47% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 276 Votes: 45.65% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 131 Votes: 53.44% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 373 Votes: 53.08% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1104 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 223 Votes: 68.61% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 108 Votes: 69.44% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 1932 Votes: 65.32% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 464 Votes: 61.21% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 1748 Votes: 68.48% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 1517 Votes: 83.45% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 1015 Votes: 83.94% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 1291 Votes: 69.40% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 1191 Votes: 74.48% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 292 Votes: 76.71% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 120 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 269 Votes: 70.63% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 321 Votes: 69.78% Annoying