Posted on 02/04/2014 5:40:41 AM PST by Travis McGee
I was just thinking about that. Communism is supposed to be some sort of science or such. But it “has never been implemented properly”. So, they made all the hypothesis and all the testing and such from... nothing at all. The “never been implemented” bit is enough to make it a fraud.
We have a word for this kind of writing: drivel.
It should also be mentioned if only in passing that each of the misconceptions listed are all ridiculous red herrings. I have never heard anyone make quite these carefully worded assertions.
“For me, communism is an aspiration”
Another one in for a prison sentence when America rises up. The pathway to good intentions is paved with gravestones. This disgusting piece of subhuman garbage is another Stalin waiting to happen.
Looks like FoxNews is to blame for the failure(?) or misunderstanding of communism or something. Just like the “lyin’ king” tried to blame the “bloggers and talking heads” for all the uh, “mis-statements” supposedly attributed to him. With a straight face and video evidence, denial is the only way to go. Guess mr.salon has never seen beneath the surface of communism and probably doesn’t care to. Wonder if he went on a castro approved tour of Cuba where the “handlers” show you how great things are there.
Thanks for posting this article from Salon. It never ceases to amaze me how people intentionally remain so ignorant of reality. The Holodomor in the Ukraine, has for years been touted as a mere accident of collectivization. In fact, it was the intentional genocide of 25% of the Ukrainian population (over 8 million men, women, and children) ordered by Stalin and personally supervised by the “great reformer” Nikita Khrushchev. I challenge anyone to read THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM, written by former believers in communism...It details the deaths of the over 100 million people exterminated by communist systems beginning with Lenin and extending through the regimes of Mao, Pol-pot, Chiochescu, Ho Chi Min, Castro, and many throughout Eastern Europe, Africa, and Central America. When Reagan called it the Evil Empire, he got it so right.
Even my dyed-in-the-wool whackjob sister doesn’t endorse full-blown communism, and that’s saying something.
Communism, and socialism, what a joke. You can dress them up and make them sound sooo appealing to the uninformed and ill-informed. But at the end of the day everyone that knows anything about history, economics, and government knows that communism and socialism suck. Plain and simple they are demonstrably some of the worst social/economic/government systems for societies to adopt. Perhaps only evil dictatorship and utter chaos are worse.
Great post. Thanks. I’ve only read the great comments.
Individual vs. collective BUMP!
There's a reason for that. In every society, regardless of economic and political structure there's always been a pyramid of wealth roughly described by the Pareto (power-law) distribution. That means that there's always a "1%" and a larger population of the less well-off. Jealousy has always been a powerful emotion, and Communism in its revolutionary stage has been persistent in inflaming it.
Once communism is established, you have a new class with wealth and power, justified by their role as trustees of the proletariat. Look at the Soviet apparatchiks or the Chinese CCP "princelings."
They don't have functional bullshit filters to protect them from teachers and the media.
Aww, Come on, Travis...
Whoopie Goldberg said “some us believe, ya know, communism isn’t all THAT bad...”
It’s just that the right people haven’t been in charge, that’s all!
We’re experiencing “compassionate communism” right now - you know, the way Marx and Engels REALLY REALLY REALLY meant it to be....
...and of course the “/sarc” tag ends my previous... as if I really needed it...
55 million dead from mass shootings, labor camps, forced exile and deliberate famine between 1949 and 1976--the time of Mao Zedong's rule of China--is probably a very conservative estimate, for we may never really know how many Chinese died in this period. And the Cultural Revolution caused enormous harm of China's great historical and cultural heritage.
If Communism is so great, why did they shoot those that tried to leave?
In a very narrow spot on the Danube between Slovakia and Austria, the old building with gun ramps is still there as a memory of soldiers shooting those that tried to swim over to freedom.
Typical communist daydream, “we are all free to be a hunter in the morning”.....nobody is working in this example. So who is producing to provide food and shelter if we are all busy just “being”?
These brilliant dreamers just never think about that part.
Grin, I know you're being sarcastic here. That's one of the traps "modern" self-proclaimed intellectuals fall into. They believe communism and socialism have failed repeatedly (100% failure rate at making happy, prosperous societies) due to mistakes made by the people trying it.
Today's commie intellectual believes (quite falsely) that they themselves are soooo much smarter and wiser than those who have gone before (self-aggrandizing ego trip). They think communism and socialism have only failed because the right people weren't in charge. Of course, they believe themselves to be "the right people" to lead us poor slobs. They honestly think they know what's best for everyone. I know, laughable right? It would be knee-slapping funny if they weren't actually serious about that. They think only they know best.
Article is garbage. Communism and socialism make it acceptable to run over the basic human rights of individuals. Look what our “benevolent” government is doing to individuals and small businesses now. It is criminal. . . and we have not quite gotten to full blown communism yet. IMHO, we are socialist now.
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