[My Favorite Headache]

I don't know how much more I can take of this. Where am I going wrong here. Did I not read in high school back in the 1980s and live through history in China and Russia with nukes and Tienanmen Square and Gorbachev?

All I heard today was as if Communism is not bad and not what the U.S. Government made it out to be. Tell me where I am going wrong here people. I beg of you. How is it a room full of people are just nodding their heads to this madness?

[cranked]

While partially valid in argument, the truth remains a fact that cannot be disputed thus far by history: Communism, in its absolute form...not some Chinese Communism-Capitalism caricature or form, has never succeeded.

[DCBryan1]

Ask him why Leninism, Marxism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Maoism, Socialism, Statism, Communism and like ilk killed more than 200 million people last century alone. Then ask him who many hundreds of millions did democracy/capitalism kill of its own citizens in the same time period.

[AreaMan]

I would start with this little book:

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

If the ‘sheeple’ do not consider Communism a danger......ask them how many people it killed during the 20th Century.

[Deb]

You need to get a copy of The Black Book of Communism. Its a French research book and is totally non-political. It clinically documents the number of people killed, executed and murdered by the Communist party in every country. The Left tried to stop it, but it was eventually translated into English and I got mine at Amazon.com some time ago.

Since the numbers are "official" numbers from documents and ledgers, the hundreds of millions the book lists are obviously low. The Communist movement was and continues to be the real Holocaust machine.

[nagdt]

I would have raised my hand to said “professor” and asked him if he would rather see the USA as a communist country.
Call the guy out.

[Noumenon]

The best way to attack and disprove the assertion that “communism’s not so bad” is to lay out the pedigree of the ideas behind it and then point out that Communism and its variants have been responsible for more mass murder, atrocity and human misery than any other ideology outside of Islam.

None of that nonsense survives an honest first principles-based debate. That’s why leftists have to shout you down, resort to name calling and other ways to shut you up. They know their ideas are indefensible.

[mnehring]

Communism was a fear on paper but never a real threat to the U.S.

Tell that to the people in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Georgia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, E. Germany, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldovia, etc, etc, etc.... Communist countries had a habit of taking over all neighboring countries- literally, not just on paper. They also had documented plans to continue to expand their influence, through either arms or manipulation. If anything, they were worse than pop-culture makes it out to be. Communists regimes were responsible for far more genocide than any other similar group in our world's documented existence.

[Lurker]

Ask your idiot professor if 200 million corpses don't show some kind of 'danger' to the US.

Or Kruschev banging his shoe while screaming "We will bury you!"

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[Melas]

I think I see the disconnect. Communism as an ideology is harmless. Communism in practice is always dangerous because real communism cannot exist. Communism is a Utopian impossibility. Using their own vocabulary, no communist state has ever real evolved past the “dictatorship of the proletariat”, and as we know dictatorships, whether the dictator be one or many protect themselves at the cost of anyone who gets in their way.

[OB1kNOb]

Simply ask the class to raise their hands if they prefer to renounce their citizenship to the U.S.A and choose to live the rest of their lives in a communist nation like Cuba, China, Russia, etc.

For those that do not raise their hand, ask them what their fears are preventing them from taking such action. For those that raise their hands, ask them why they have not yet acted on this preference and still remain in the U.S.A.

[Noumenon]

And check out Plenty of ammo there.

You'll know you've won when the name-calling starts. Never fail to point that out to them. Drives them nuts.

[khnyny]

What’s that old saying? “The Devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist.” (actually by French poet Baudelaire, but has been copied numerous times) It’s also interesting to note that Baudelaire refers to the devil as a “she”, but I digress.

[listenhillary]

Protestwarrior.com

[ArrogantBustard]

Who is this man? Why is he holding a shoe? What is he saying?

Perhaps your professor needs to write a nice little research paper answering my questions above. He could submit his work to FR for a grade.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There’s a reason Lenin told Gorky “Intellectuals aren’t the revolution’s brains, they’re it’s s**t.”

[mdittmar]

November 2,1962 in History John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[TruthBeforeAll]

Read “The Gulag Archipelago”.

[andy58-in-nh]

My uniform experience has been that any person who apologizes for Communism secretly wishes to rule you.