Poll: Is world peace possible within our lifetime?

In a true communist society there would be no revolt, there is no point to rebel against perfection.

You can say that about anything. In a perfect Nazi world, the Jews and Nazis would work out their differences, and we could all live in peace under Hitler.

The problem is in order to eliminate war you either need to take the Gundam 00 approach and create a common enemy for the planet to unite against, or eliminate jealousy, greed, and the desire to hurt another person. So in order to create peace we must first create communism.

Better idea! We'll have the Earth attacked by Aliens!
Stupid Aliens though, because Smart Aliens would kick our asses.

outof all the years humans have been on this planet it is estimated that only 300 of those years were at peace.

Well a subject I recently found an intrest in is prehistoric warfare, and most importantly the origin of war. Now according to current archeological research evidence for war (tools that are only used for killing people, fortifications, man made injuries on a large scale...etc) generally only arises when people make the transition from hunter gatherer societies to sedentary societies. So if we want world peace we should all simply revert to a hunter gatherer existence.

How can whole world peace be possible? Humans kill, end of.

No peace until Capitalism, and Religion are destroyed.
No peace until Communism.

You mean like xenomorphs?

We are closer to a world war than world peace

Capitalist are getting desperate. Under the Capitalist system, free market, whatever. We will never see peace. The elite will fight for resources, eventually the Bourgeoisie will fight against each other, over the supreme dominance of resources and wealth.

Under Socialism, there would be world peace. For all nations to continue the transition towards the ultimate goal (Communism) Abolition of classes, private property, wars, racial negative expressions, etc

All out classless world, supported by freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and everything else. Religion is not abolished because it can be used as a "pain killer" for the proletariat, and simply people can keep their faith in whatever they believe. Equality for all! it would work out, without the Bourgeoisie class.

There you go. WORLD PEACE WOULD HAPPEN UNDER A COMMUNIST WORLD ORDER! but not happen in our lifetime though, but i picked yes. Because i have faith it could happen upon our lifetime, but you never know.

i mean ants have wars and that a pretty communistic society. What I'm trying to say is that economics are hardly ever the sole causes of a war.

Capitalists aren't getting desperate in the slightest. They're getting resourceful. Sure the oil in America is getting dried up, but there's plenty of oil in Africa, so we go drill there. Sure there might be a war or two, but thsoe are temporary. Economic growth lasts a very, very long time.
Also, a pure Socialist/Communist society is impossible on its own. Let alone on a global scale. The problem being that either everyone starves in a "drought" or it's not enforced and isn't Socialism/Communism, it's some watered down version.

In fact, purities in all governments are terrible. Pure Capitalism leads to a totalitarianism of Capitalists. Pure Communism leads to a totalitarianism of Beurocrats. Pure Anarchy leads to Chaos. Pure Order leads to totalitriansim. Everything pure sucks, you need some blend like a recipee for a nation.

Fucking dictionary......

just start refering to yourself as a social anarchist

It pisses me off too.
Almost as much as hearing 'Communist China' 'Communist Russia' 'Communist North-Korea'.
But, y'know. It's not convenient for the Capitalist to correct it. Heavens forbid the working class should find out the true meaning of the words, and realize they are being lied to!
/Ideological ally fist-salute.

And a red fist in the air to you too buddy.

I prefer the "Anarchist without adjectives" stance.
I like to mix things.

world peace could never happen

Also, I think the excuse "Communism can't be discredited because it has never really been tried" is more of an apology for the USSR and such than an actual reason. Reverse it, if America lost I could just Capitalism can't be discredited because America wasn't pure Capitalist and blah blah blah. Communism was attempted, and it failed horribly. "Pure" Communism requires to specific a situation and is far to impracticle to implement on any scale.

It's ignorant to assume Anarchy is automaticly chaos. If you don't screw it up and put some thought to it things can turn out pretty well, for a while. But you need some legal base, as your completly without authority anarchy will just collapse into chaos. Keep in mind though, your legal base doesn't have to be a government.