[lavrenti]

As a former communist I can say that it is an ideology predicated on murder.

It is based on class anger, avarice and jealousy. Combine the three emotions, give it philosophical basis and a gun and you get events such as the Ukranian slaughter.

I could go on, but this is at the core of this ideology.

[MEG33]

I wish you could speak to the left in the universities.The youth may listen.The professors still clinging to the 60s will never change.Progressive is the fashionable word for socialism/communism now.

[Jack00]

You wrote:
"As a former communist I can say that it is an ideology predicated on murder.

It is based on class anger, avarice and jealousy. Combine the three emotions, give it philosophical basis and a gun and you get events such as the Ukranian slaughter.

I could go on, but this is at the core of this ideology."

What you say here is an affirmation of what Aleksander Solzhenitsin says every chance he gets, and he should know, having spent years in a gulag. I am now reading a book of his essays. He is dismayed that the West has it all wrong on communism. He cites the movie Reds as an example of how western cinema grossly misrepresents and glorifies these murderers. He points out that, at variance with received wisdom, there is no such thing as "good communism." He says western intellectuals who put their hopes in negotiations with communists are expecting a miracle. But that miracles never happen to people who are spiritually lost! I love that guy!
I've lived in the USSR, Poland and Red China and agree 100%.
Americans who know the truth really need to keep up the drumbeat. The mainstream press is trying to drown us out. We can't let that happen.