Posted on 02/13/2022 3:40:00 PM PST by arthurus
One of the many excellent uses of reality is that it can be used to test ideological and political theories. No matter how good the idea seems in the lab, the only way to know if it will work is to give it a go in the real world. The best example of this is the seventy-year social experiment called communism. The acolytes of Karl Marx tried to prove that the human condition was nothing more than a social construct.
Granted, reality can be a cruel master. No one really knows how many people Stalin murdered while getting the experiment going. The best guess is tens of millions died under Soviet communism. Then you have the Asian experience. The Black Book of Communism puts the number at 94 million. It is a good reminder that reality can remain stubborn longer than the ideologues can pile corpses.
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As you typed, tens of millions enjoyed US government subsidized rent and free food and health care, as they have for years.
70 years? Russia went communist in 1917.
I caught that but otherwise thought the piece worth a look.
That is one of those “about” dates. Did russian communism start with the Bolshevik coup in 1917 or the declaration of the CCCP in 1922?
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