[Tailgunner Joe]

It is no accident that communism should have displayed the same faults everywhere it was tried, according to Service. The founding fathers, Marx and Engels, were themselves peace-loving intellectuals, but they accepted the need for violent revolution to usher in their world of equality and plenty. They claimed to have the answer to everything, which politicians found as useful as religious leaders have done in a quest for power. The roots of Marxism were totalitarian. - LINK

[the invisib1e hand]

hold on to your wallets...another “communism is dead” campaign.

[SunkenCiv]

The founding fathers, Marx and Engels, were themselves peace-loving intellectuals, but they accepted the need for violent revolution to usher in their world of equality and plenty.

...in other words, they weren't peace-loving. And it goes without saying that they were not intellectuals. Engels was a capitalist, and allowed Marx to sponge off him.

Perhaps in more ways than one...

[RayChuang88]

Communism failed for one reason: the suppression of individual human rights. If you've read Mao: The Unknown Story, Mao Zedong's political decisions may have killed 70 million Chinese citizens--a figure that makes the the Nazi Holocaust seem like a minor event in comparison.

I can confidently say right now that once the reign of Fidel Castro ends and Cuba turns away from Communism, we will find a shocking death toll on that island country that could be just as brutal as what happened in China.

[SunkenCiv]

"On July 28, 1937, [NKVD head, Nikolai] Yezhov sent Stalin a list of 138 names. Stalin scrawled 'Shoot all 138.'" -- The Commissar Vanishes by David King (p 132)