This love affair with communism persists to this day among many of the so-called “enlightened.” In one of my university classes last year, a fellow mature student expressed admiration for communism and declared it was better than our capitalist society. I then asked her what exactly was it about communism that was so attractive to her? Was it the 110 million dead? The gulags? The tortures and arbitrary arrests by the secret police? The food lines? Or was it the silencing of dissent, seizure of private property, or restriction on travel?
Naturally she didn’t have a good answer and I made an enemy for the rest of the course.
Some people just hate our society so much they want to destroy it and replace it with a so-called utopian system. Naturally, they expect to be placed in power in these new governments and will have absolute power over the masses.
After all, that’s what it really comes down to - they want to have power over others where their every whim is satisfied and their word is law. Since they cannot get this god-like power in our democratic system, they want to overthrow it and replace it with communism or another totalitarian regime.
I think it is much more simple than all of that: naievete.
The infamous Jonestown remains the perfect microcosm of all utopian socialist states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
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