Would Communism have worked better in Britain?

[Frozzy]

Would Britain had been the better breeding ground for the Commies of pre-1970? All things needed were second nature to the Poms.

Brits were known to pull together then and strived for a common good. They used to queue for AGES (still seen in various tourist parks today) and didn't care if there were abrupt shortages of goods (i.e. looking for bread on a Saturday afternoon). Thatcher proved Britain didn't mind a dictatorship, and draw pleasure from the rich falling into the lower classes.

Understand I'm not saying Britain would have been a happier, merrier place under Communism, but I think the British would have done it properly, and without cheating. It would have spared Britain Robert Maxwell for a start.

Any thoughts?

[Sava]

if you brits became dirty pinky commie rats! our good old US of A would invade and liberate you!!

[DinoDoc]

It would probably end as well as it did in Paris.

[molly bloom]

The British electorate returned four Communist m.p.s to Parliament in all, although none after 1950, amongst whom was Shapurji Saklatvala:

http://www.marxlibrary.net/reviews/biography/saklatvala_1.htm

[Spiffor]

"Communism" (more properly "socialism under a police state") would have worked about as badly in Britain than in Russia IMHO. For a Socialist poilce state to work properly, you need an overmotivation from the population for the system to work better. Simple apathy isn't this needed motivation.

[Paul Hanson]

Exactly. I'd say that what Thatcher actually demonstrates is that we Brits don't care who makes up our government, so you simply wouldn't be able to whip us up into enough a frenzy for a revolution to take place.

[SlowwHand]

"but I think the British would have done it properly"

How can you do it properly ?
It's a failed theory. Period.

[DuncanK]

I think the Japanese would make particularly good communists. That is if they had the proper motivation.

[Sandman]

Britain behaved rather like a communist state during the Second World War.

[SlowwHand]

You mean as bombs were falling on London?

[Kontiki]

Communism would have been particularly ugly in Britain considering how entrenched the noble class is.

[DuncanK]

No one is paying attention to your attempts to turn this into a communism vs. capitalism thread. Try harder SlowwHand.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Exactly. I'd say that what Thatcher actually demonstrates is that we Brits don't care who makes up our government, so you simply wouldn't be able to whip us up into enough a frenzy for a revolution to take place.

To have a revolution is quintessentially unEnglish.

[SlowwHand]

No need for me to try and do that Duncan.
Communist success speaks for itself.

[Sandman]

You mean as bombs were falling on London?

Sure.

To have a revolution is quintissentially unEnglish.

I expect I'm walking into a trap here, but what about Cromwell? Or the Gunpowder Plot?