Posted on 01/23/2004 1:52:40 AM PST by kattracks
The only problem I have with their treatment was that their deaths did not involve more suffering than it did.
Misguided idealists or not, what they did was pure treason that potentially could have ended with their neighbors and even their own children being incinerated in thermonuclear fire.
Those who insist on defending this Communist trash and their evil deeds believe that there should be no reprisals at all against those who would sell us all into slavery or death, it seems.
In my own life, I give Progressives, Socialists, and Communists no quarter. In debate I loudly get in their faces and scream about the 100 million murders that were committed in the name of their so-called "idealism", and insist that they justify the slaughter. Not one of them can. It's always the same old "but true Communism has never been tried, it's a humane system that got corrupted by power-hungry men" pack of excuses.
This is countered with the accusation that their "humane system" has no checks or balances to keep the Communist state in line, and that those who seek absolute power will always gravitate to positions of leadership in such a system. In other words, their "humane system" is in fact a recipe for mass murder.
Usually by this point in the conversation the Red is either becoming frightened at my vehemence and wrath, or is getting angry enough to throw a punch. Either way suits me fine. Either way it goes, I assert my domination over them, and send them scurrying back to the coffeehouse to fantasize about their "perfect utopia for the downtrodden", while the rest of us work on bettering our own lives through hard work and sacrifice.
/trying to quit smoking and feeling the righteous anger! Grrrrr!
Soviet body count: Artificial famine, gulags, the Great Terror Purges - around 40 million. Mao Zedong: 60 million.
Also, the Soviet advantage during the Korean war (having the atomic bomb, thanks to them). This caused many American soldiers' lives.
I would have pulled the switch myself on these evil entities.
This grandaughter's feeble attempt at revisionism is pathetic. What next, Stalin's grandchildren saying he was just misrepresented?
Thanks for this info.
Ditto for me. G-d Bless You.
Yes, idealists with good intentions are still paving the Road to Hell. They never cease. And they never learn.
"to remain 'misguided idealists,' they had to have willfully blinded themselves to...reality. But human beings have a remarkable capacity to do that sort of thing."
Yes, don't they? This makes them more culpable, not less.
"Still, the fact remains that either these 'left-wing activists' were evil...or fools."
Yes, scoundrels and fools. They're still at it. They have taken over the Democrat Party, the "Liberal" enclaves of America, American academia, and the "mainstream newsmedia". It's hard to say which is more dangerous, but it's probably the fools; they are the enablers of the scoundrels, and scoundrels, at least, take a rest once in a while.
Or in a broader context:
"Liberals", Democrats, and leftists today are scoundrels and fools who are misguided idealists, ready to pave the Road to Hell with their good intentions. MANY of their opponents are actually smarter and more morally well-grounded than they are.
The question that occurs to me about these hypocrites is why they continue to live in and enjoy the freedoms of such an awful country as the U.S. If Meeropol and her siblings think Communism is the answer they should immediately get their pampered red butts to Cuba or North Korea to walk the walk.
I heard that! And on the authority of Marx himself, no less! -- LOL!
Only a book Marx.
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