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Why do you perceive Communism to be evil (Mice on the Menu for Christmas- Enjoy Kitties)
NeinNeinNein

Posted on 12/11/2011 5:35:03 PM PST by NeinNeinNein

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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Communism cannot get started without tyranny.

And useful idiots. However it usually gets the useful idiots killed as soon as their government takes power. The last thing totalitarians need is trouble makers. Castro killed the bearded ones, the Nazis killed the brownshirts, Stalin killed all potential threats to his power.
121 posted on 12/11/2011 6:30:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Outlaw Woman

122 posted on 12/11/2011 6:30:59 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: 50mm
Piling on proudly after the ZOT! They're coming out of the woodwork! How many has this been today?



Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Princeps Pacis!
123 posted on 12/11/2011 6:33:13 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: NeinNeinNein

First of all, you REALLY need to give us YOUR definition of “Communism”.

Otherwise, you are just asking to be the designated impact zone for a “Time-On-Target”, (TOT).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_On_Target


124 posted on 12/11/2011 6:34:03 PM PST by BwanaNdege (“Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address” - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Nachum

Why do they Troll Free Republic? Do they think they’re going to influence any of us?


125 posted on 12/11/2011 6:34:10 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: NeinNeinNein
If you put all political AND economic power in the hands of the same individuals, you will have a totalitarian regime. That is what Communism does. It is no different than the monarchies of old. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

Humans are by definition corrupt, and the 'well-meaning' leftists like you do not seem to understand that basic fact. Everyone has a price. If men were saints, we would need no government. See Federalist #51 for why Communism is a horrible idea that only leads to misery.

The only way to preserve individual liberty is via contention and through separation of powers and authority. A strong private sector is a balance to overpowering government. A government with just laws overseen by a people jealous of their freedom assures those powers held by the government and the freedom of individuals to peruse their own destinies are not used to abuse other citizens.

The problem today is that we have grown to take our freedom for granted. We are no longer jealous of our freedom.

126 posted on 12/11/2011 6:35:31 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: guitar Josh
Communism goes against human nature. The vast majority of humans are greedy to some degree. Communism as a government has to deny people of their basic human rights . . .

This answer gets the "Nail on the Head" Award. Communism is based on false assumptions. People will not work or take risks if they are not rewarded according to their efforts, success and risks. What would the NFL be like if all the players made the same salary?

127 posted on 12/11/2011 6:36:11 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: ConorMacNessa
That by done went full special.

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128 posted on 12/11/2011 6:36:15 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek

As you point out, it is not only the useful idiots that are eliminated. Communist tyrants will inevitably end up killing each other. Just ask Leon Trotsky and Hafizullah Amin.


129 posted on 12/11/2011 6:36:48 PM PST by gusty
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130 posted on 12/11/2011 6:38:14 PM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: A.Hun

Socialism is the morally corrupt belief that we each can (and must) live off of the income and wealth of others. Christians should know how this violates at least trhee of the Ten Commandments: lies, coveting and theft. But recall that socialists themselves love to scold the rest of us about “sustainability”, yet as Margaret Thatcher once quipped, socialism works until they run out of other people’s money.

So, the dirty secret about socialism is that in the long run, it is not economically “sustainable”, and is in fact built to fail. Sadly, socialists not only think they have the right to seize the income and asset of others, many of whom they have never met, they don’t stop there. To read Keyenes or Marx is to read the plans and proposals of someone who assumes the right to own, control and in the end, to even wholely consume the personhood of others. It is a sociopathology so vast in scope, that it is only restrained by how many humans it can place under its insatiable grasp.

Socialism is evil, plain and simple. Those who advocate socialsm are advocates and supporters of evil. They are our our enemies and are a threat to our lives and our prosperity.


131 posted on 12/11/2011 6:38:42 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: cripplecreek

You can’t have even a little bit of socialism beyond basic charity without some coercion. Beyond the level of charity coercicion must increase with the level of socialism or the whole thing collapses.


132 posted on 12/11/2011 6:39:52 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Old Sarge

Oh, look! Captain Kirk is back!

LOL!


133 posted on 12/11/2011 6:40:01 PM PST by Absolutely Nobama (NO COMPROMISE! NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER! I AM A CONSERVATIVE! CASE CLOSED!)
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To: NeinNeinNein
This is Communism...

134 posted on 12/11/2011 6:40:35 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: unkus

Nah, it is to poke a finger in our eye. They get off on it.


135 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:58 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: VRWCmember

Zot Ping!


136 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:58 PM PST by tioga ( Holder lost the guns, Corzine lost the money, Obama lost the jobs....a dem trifecta.)
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To: Old Sarge; 50mm
Sorry, fellas - according to my atomically-synchronized timepiece, this troll somehow posted, then got zotted, before it was temporally possible for him/her/it to post to begin with. There was some sort of Star Trekkian chicanery involved here. Methinks the DU denizens got ahold of some DARPA tech via the Chinese and a new game is afoot.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

137 posted on 12/11/2011 6:42:29 PM PST by Viking2002 (Hippies smell.)
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To: NeinNeinNein

Please allow me to add that socialism must destroy private price information and substitute ideologically derived prices. We see this every day when government subsidizes something so the price will “encourage” the market or “discourage” some unapproved item. This is the very reason we have a 51 cents per gallon subsidy for ethanol in just about every gallon of gasoline we buy.

Socialism also must destroy property rights. Socialists love to scold the rest of us about “sustainability”, yet an economy without freely set prices and where property rights are destroyed simply IS NOT sustainable.

Without property rights, there cannot be a free market in the exchange of goods and services.

Without a free market, without a willing buyer and a willing seller, it is IMPOSSIBLE to know the real price of anything.

Without the price, it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to make the necessary economic calculation, that is to know when the inputs to an activity (labor or raw materials) costs more or less than the output of an activity (the value of the thing produced or service performed).

Without the economic calculation, it is IMPOSSIBLE for an economic activity to make a profit and thus be sustainable. Conversely, it is IMPOSSIBLE for an unprofitable economic activity to be sustainable.

Without profit, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have resources from which to feed, clothe and house those who are involved in the activity.

Without profit, it is IMPOSSIBLE, to have excess resources to set aside in the form of savings.

Without savings, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have capital to invest in new economic activities.

Without the ability to have property rights to those savings, it is IMPOSSIBLE to evaluate all of the other possible economic activities to find the ones that carries the least risk when compared to their anticipated return, and to properly allocate savings to the most promising investments.

Without new economic activity and without the ability for others to invest as it suits the saver, the economy cannot have the opportunity nor the resources with which to adapt to changing circumstances, let alone to provide jobs and resources for the next generation.

Without honest money, government is free to destroy the very means of accounting for, saving and exchanging wealth. Without the assurance that money will retain its value, people will not save but instead will either consume excess wealth or will store it in forms like fixed assets that preclude investment in new economic activity.

In other words, without property rights, a free market, price information that allows economic calculation of profit, the ability to save with the assurance those savings are free to be invested when and where the saver sees fit, and without honest money, a sustainable economy is IMPOSSIBLE.

Without a sustainable economy, it is IMPOSSIBLE for humans enjoy any level of prosperity. This is exactly the reason that North Koreans are reduced to foraging for bark and grass to fill their empty stomachs. Their government forbids property rights, forbids a free market, destroys price information, confiscates savings, forbids investment and has no economic growth.

Liberty, property, profit, investment, capital and honest money are the only means of creating a sustainable economy. All other ways have been tried and have failed utterly. Yet, somehow, property rights, profit, capital and honest money are still considered to be evil, particularly in the thinking of people still yearning for the perfect socialist Utopia. Socialism is in reality the economy of death.


138 posted on 12/11/2011 6:43:00 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: gusty

Yep, there’s a reason Che Guevera never returned to Cuba even when he was being hunted like a dog in South America. He knew Castro would kill him.


139 posted on 12/11/2011 6:43:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

LMAO!!


140 posted on 12/11/2011 6:44:06 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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