[patriciaruth]

Communism has been proven wrong and everyone knows it.

@@ rolling eyes up in head.

Gosh, you could have fooled Chavez, the People's Republic of China, a large contingent in Russia, North Korea, many U.S. university professors, the MSM, Hollywood, etc. etc.

Communism fielded many fellow travellers and dedicated Marxists throughout the United States and the world before the Soviet Union broke up. These people were dazed for a while, but not defeated.

They have found an ally in radical Islamics. They are riding the back of a tiger, IMO, but they have deluded themselves into believing that bringing the U.S. to its knees is the most important thing.

They fail to understand their new ally. They think once the U.S. is eviscerated that the radical Islamics are merely peasants/untutored barbarians who will be brushed away by the historic broom sweeps of socialism and communism.

The dead hand of communism is going to hand over nuclear technology to the radical Islamics and even more deadly is going to provide them with a bully pulpit for years to come.

[Cronos]

ok, FACT -- Islam arose in the 7th century
FACT -- Isslam killed millions and conquered Christian territories like Syria, Egypt etc.
FACT -- Isslam threatens the world and has not self-destructed.

FACT -- Issslam is the enemy of today -- face reality

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn stated at some time in the 80s that there were more true Marxists in Western Universities than in the Soviet Union. This statement made two points. Communism was no longer an idealistic movement but a means of maintaining power. The second point was that naive academics just did not understand that Communism did not work.

Your comments touch on these two points. I agree that fools like Chavez, many University profs, the MSM and some in Hollywood still don't get it.
I disagree regarding China, Russia and North Korea. China has a large Communist Party that continues to maintain their power, however over the past 25 years they have dramatically changed the economic base of the country. China's Communists have in effect slowly but surely given up on Collectivism and state planning as the central role in China's economy. Free enterprise operated side by side with withering state owned industries. Time is not on the side of collectivism and state control. Political reform was set back in 1989, but with the Internet and exposure to the world China will likely shed its Communist Party as its political system.
Russia does have a large number of unreformed communists, but they are a small minority and mainly old and dying. I know Russians (mostly young) and they will never stand for returning to the old ways. North Korea is another story. Its leadership may still believe in Communism, but my guess is that few in that country are happy with the current system.

I do hope you are wrong about the dead hand of Communism handing over nuclear technology to radical islamists. The Russians may have figured out that Iran is a real danger to their security. North Korea is truly a loose cannon.

[Calpernia]

>>>>They are riding the back of a tiger...

I actually think they are Siegfried & Roy.