Posted on 12/16/2021 3:40:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
Why is communism so appealing to a certain subset of leftists?
If something had a track record of 100 million dead and explicitly called for the subjugation of people, most would call it evil. Yet some people still call themselves communists and socialists. Why? It is not as if these facts about the recorrd of communism are obscure, certainly not to professors and intellects. Knowing of the gulags and famines and still advocating for what made it possible, is a singularly wicked form of evil. Clearly there is something causing these advocate to supersede common sense and decency. A recent debate on capitalism and socialism provided a glimpse of that.
Yaron Book has a Ph.D. in finance, is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, and hosts the Yaron Brook show. His opponent, Richard D. Wolff is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has taught at Yale, and elsewhere.
Arguing for socialism, Wolff made a statement that left me speechless. In terms of scale, Mao Zedong is the single worst mass murderer in history. His victims tally at least 45 million, or about the populations of California and Minnesota. Collectivized farms starved whole villages, while Mao’s thugs brutally enforced his rule. Historian Frank Dikötter writes:
It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later.
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Atheists who reject God, but if they had to believe in something, would rather believe there is a satan or allah.
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