[Travis McGee]

"Most of what Americans think they know about capitalism and communism is total nonsense. Here's a clearer picture."

(Pro-communist stooges at Salon are reaching out to a new generation of idiots.)

[Travis McGee]

Communism is harder to kill than Dracula. They are always waiting to seduce another generation of historical idiots with their siren song of forced equality. But even in Salon, the comments are 90% condemnatory of communism and socialism

[newfreep]

The fruits of socialist indoctrination in our public schools.

[RoosterRedux]

All the communists I have known spit and sputter when you ask them to name one (just ONE) communist system that has ever worked.

[Paladin2]

Where does this guy point to all of the successful Communist Nations?

[G Larry]

Good to see the folks as Salon have exposed their COMMUNIST IDEALS.

[broken_clock]

"Let them try to convince the tens of millions of people who die of malnutrition every year because the free market is incapable of engineering a situation in which less than half of the world’s food is thrown away.

Yes, you Salon fools try and tell this to the Ukrainians.

[fruser1]

Captilism relies on freedom.

Communism takes it away.

[polymuser]

Wow! Someone has a jumbo koolaid sipper and fills it frequently. A poster boy for cognitive dissonance. How do some Americans get so lost? Or, did he just have a tough daddy he’s still trying to hurt back?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The author sets up a bunch of straw men, then knocks them down.

What a novel idea!

[b4its2late]

salon.com isn’t worth the money they pay yearly to keep the site online.

[Nifster]

The typical distortions and twisting to try and convince people that communism and statism are good things. This yob knows nothing about freedom and liberty.

[Moose Burger]

Thinking “is this the best you have?”... Well, this is salon, so yes, maybe this is the best they have.

[muir_redwoods]

Socialism is simply the default choice of the stupid. Only a moron unwillingly or unable to look beyond the superficial falls for the idiocy of marxist “thought”.

[celmak]

Amazing. The writer works on superfluous exaggerations as examples of what is supposedly the norm in both economic theories.

[Viennacon]

“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.

[Bill Russell]

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.

[arderkrag]

Even my dyed-in-the-wool whackjob sister doesn’t endorse full-blown communism, and that’s saying something.

[ThunderSleeps]

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.

[mmichaels1970]

I went to the USSR in 1986 as a teen and saw first-hand the devastation and poverty that their ideology had wrought. The Russian kids would sneak into our hotel air ducts and work their way up to the third floor to get a chance to trade with us for western products.

The first thing they would do was whisper "KGB" and search our room fixtures for bugs. Their technology was about 15 years behind to be generous. The kids even offered to trade a girl for the braces on her teeth.

But this article isn't about convincing you or me about how benevolent communism is. It's about convincing our kids who didn't see what we saw, who can't remember the fear and oppression.

The commies know they have an opportunity for a fresh crack at the USA by going after the already propagandized minds of our youths.

By the way....Jesse Myerson would do well to discuss the Berlin Wall and other methods used by the commies to prevent their citizens from escape. A capitalist nation may have to take measures to keep people out. But a communist nation takes measures to keep people in...and that's enough convincing for me.

[PGalt]

Great post. Thanks. I’ve only read the great comments.

Individual vs. collective BUMP!