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Yes, it's on the skill list, under Espionage/Military skills. Really, they should've called it "Communist Philosophy" and been done with it.
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No, they're not, but they presented themselves as being derived from Communism, and the West tended to lump them together under "Communism".
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There probably are, Macksting. I imagine someone is defining Castro's rule over Cuba as "Castroism", another is calling it "Cuban Marxist-Leninism". Chinese Communism is likely called "Market Communism" or "Neo-Maoism" or something like that.
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Certainly it exists in the world! One need look no farther than the People's Republic of Massachusetts, where anyone who makes more than $80,000 a year (but let's ignore the fact that all non-rentcontrolled homes cost about ten times that), is considered to be a greedy, upper class scumbag, and so they are all taxed at 30%...
If you don't think working just for your state for 1/3 of every year is communism, then you don't live in Massachusetts...
But then again, I don't (anymore!) either, so there is hope.
Outside of Mass, the closest you'll come to true Communism is the Scandinavian countries of Northern Europe, where a pregnant woman can receive a home, a check and coupons for food for two years, without ever having to work or be married/have a... well, a someone else. This of course is all thanks to their 60% tax rate. Communism here being defined as taking money from others to ensure that everyone has enough resources (an equal share), to live happily.
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If you don't think working just for your state for 1/3 of every year is communism, then you don't live in Massachusetts...
But then again, I don't (anymore!) either, so there is hope.
Outside of Mass, the closest you'll come to true Communism is the Scandinavian countries of Northern Europe, where a pregnant woman can receive a home, a check and coupons for food for two years, without ever having to work or be married/have a... well, a someone else. This of course is all thanks to their 60% tax rate. Communism here being defined as taking money from others to ensure that everyone has enough resources (an equal share), to live happily.
--GJ
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Goblin-Jack wrote:But more importantly, why on Earth would you ever want to take this skill?
Its stated purpose is to help a character to "escape detection when under cover in a communist country."
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