The remnant communists (the media, academia, Move-On, etc.) are still extremely vicious and dangerous. It is amazing how they set the tone for the rats these days. It is also amazing how the communists are down to North Korea, Cuba, and the Democrat Party as power bases. Febble minded and/or psychotic losers like Gore make up a big cohort of the Move-On enemy.
Yes. Exactly the point I was trying to make. I feel it gets lost sometimes when the attention is focused on the psychosis of the messenger and tuned away from the audience.
It is also amazing how the communists are down to North Korea, Cuba, and the Democrat Party as power bases.
On paper, I guess this is true, but islamofascism is one threat which while, not exactly communism, might as well be for the danger it poses. Not to mention China, which is still communist despite loosening economic controls.
But more to the point, I think the Robin Hood idea that communism champions is an idea, that sadly, is never going to go away. Someone once mentioned that the Robin Hood myth, story, legend, is the most dangerous in the English tradition.
Academically and historically, it has been proven that free markets provide the greatest good for the greatest number.
However, it will always be the case that the have-nots will envy the haves. It is basic human nature going all the way back through history. When you couple this with the ability in a democracy for the have-nots to vote themselves a share of the treasury plus the geopolitical trend for the have-not societies to black mail the haves with nuclear weapons, immigration, political unrest, I would not (sadly) pronounce communism dead just yet.