In the U.S. today, I feel like we are living in Dr. Zivago, but without the love story.
So, we can also celebrate 100 years of "journalists" being complete fools who get everything wrong, 100% of the time...
Lenin ordered the hanging of 100 property owners at the very start of the Revolution, saying people needed to see the deaths of “landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.” Mass murder and starvation rapidly increased the death toll after that. It wasn’t exactly what philosopher Karl Marx had in mind …It wasn’t? When one reads Marx’s writings, one sees that it is exactly what he had in mind.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production. …Marx had zero understanding of human nature. Somehow the “proletariat” was more noble than any preceding version of humanity, and once they attained dictatorial power and centralized everything, they would suddenly discover no more need for their dictatorship, convert their deadly weapons into plowshares, and live in a world with no families, no private property, no national borders and no religion, and sodomy and transgenderism for all.
The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. I think he means since the Russian Revolution.
This was Jacinto Marto, Francisco Marto, and Lucy Santos. The children had three predictions: suffering for their Catholic Church and the Holy Father (Pope), an even worse war if people did not repent (World War I was still raging and this was a prediction of World War II).
But the prediction the children were ridiculed about was that Russia would spread its errors around the world
At this time in 1917, Russia had been knocked out of World War I because it was such an INEPT world power?
How could such an INEPT power spread its errors around the world?
The answer is the Revolution of Red October, and how Communism would be the mechanism that would spread its errors around the world...
Nothing to celebrate here, just prayers for the (at least) 100 million souls who died in the name of that so-called ideal.
104 years ago the income tax and the IRS were created.
Right up there with Communism.
Happy Birthday all you Dead commies.
WRONG! communism has been around a lot longer than that, in fact it was tried in the Plymouth Colony in the early 1600's and in 1623 was such an abject failure that the entire colony almost starved. They went to a capitalistic system and ushered in an era of prosperity. Same people same resources, but different philosophy of government. You can read a summary of William Bradford's journal here Or you can get a copy and plough through the whole thing - it's available on Amazon.
Communism ALWAYS fails to deliver on its promises. All it ever produces is poverty and misery.
Communism turns 100...
F*ckers killed my great grandfather, and kept most of the rest of that family in a giant open-air prison for the next 75 years (along with about 100 million other families).
The bastards may come to power here, but I swear on the grave of my great grandfather that I won’t go quietly or peacefully.
For any that believe that this 100 year old revolutionary political movement is on it’s death bed....please read this...
https://www.thoughtco.com/critical-theory-3026623