“People sometime point out that ‘communism’ under its strict definition was not even practiced in the Soviet Union.”
Of course they say that, FRiend! That is because communism CANNOT BE ACHIEVED—it kills everyone long before it ever reaches its goals.
They don’t have a leg to stand on.
That’s my point in all of this. To me, they are trying to KILL US!
Consciously...on purpose? No, but the universe doesn’t care about their good intentions. If you rob a man of his ability to fend for himself AND to defend himself from his would-be-captors/owners, then you have killed him.
At that point, it’s only a matter of time until mass graves are needed.
“Most leftists today laugh at the idea, as of course everyone should, so if one calls them ‘communist’ it is easy for them to shrug off the label.”
WHY is it “easy” today? It wasn’t easy fifty years ago. What has changed?
You are letting them muddy the waters—the waters being your mind.
YOU/WE must define the terms, not them. They will kill you with words if you let them.
To a communist: your mind is the prize.
This is the subversion, FRiend. They are a very real threat in this department.
You can poo-poo me ‘til the cows come home, but I know how they work.
My dad used to say that: “The biggest obstacle to learning something new is what you already know.”
The biggest threat to Americans right now is that so many are arrogant, and irrationally confident in the infallibility of this country.
The ideas that form our laws are the ONLY thing that keep us free. Guess what they are attacking DIRECTLY?
“it [the constitution] does not say what the government can do on your behalf.” This is all you need to know about Obama. When I first heard him say those words I literally got chills and goose bumps. My heart sank. I knew we were in big, big trouble.
“...on your behalf.” That’s ANYTHING the he/they decide is good for you. Hello?! The “common good”, anyone? A blank check on your existence, anyone?
Those words alone merited a bloody revolution to prevent his rise to power—he’s anti-American, and in broad daylight.
You are not superior in any way to other human beings on this planet and you will fall to communism just the same. What, was everyone in Germany, or Russia stupid? Genetically inferior?
How could so many millions fall prey to communism?
It is the Siren call of Siren calls—and it stands like a giant before us ready to stomp us out of existence.
Previous generations feared and loathed communism for good reason. They watched from a distance as the communists ran over nations and peoples overtly.
Right now, they are in the White House. Only now, they must operate covertly.
Call me extreme/alarmist, or whatever, but don’t you think we should err on the side of great caution when it comes to our freedom?
Shouldn’t we look upon those who lead us with suspicion when they have done SO MANY THINGS that communists would do?
The ideology is precisely the same—all you’re missing are the red flags, the tanks, and death camps. They can’t do those things here yet.
But they can convince you that they don’t exist, and slowly turn you against yourself, and do it all “...on your behalf.”
One should define the terms correctly. Communism is an ideology that combines common ownership of all property, withering away of market interchange, deep transformation of the character of man, witherign away of the state and withering away of religion. That is the definition.
One can make an argument that the Soviet Union represented “Real Communism”: a deeply repressive militaristic command system.
It is more accurate to say that the Soviet Union was simply another aggressive totalitarian system that for historical accidental reason adopted some elements of marxism to justify the oppression.
Another aggressive totalitarian system might adopt corporatism, tribal mythology and anthropological darwinism as the justification for its existence.
Yet another might make representative democracy, mass round-the-clock entertainment and moral relativism its distinctive fig leaf.
These are superficialities. The underlying mechanism is still the same: a ruling class has formed, which finds ways to fool the people into trusting them with power, which they then abuse.