The Left is trying to rehabilitate Karl Marx. Let's remind them of the millions who died in his name

The Telegraph ^ | 11-1-13 | Tim Stanley

[ReformationFan]

I can't quite believe that I've just sat through ten minutes of BBC television in which British journalists Owen Jones and Zoe Williams have defended Karl Marx as the prophet of the End of Capitalism. Unbelievable because I had thought Marxism was over with the fall of the Berlin Wall – when we discovered that socialism was one part bloodshed, one part farce. But unbelievable also because you'd have to be a pretty lacking in moral sensitivity to defend a thinker whose work sent millions of people to an early grave.

I don't want to have to rehearse the numbers but, apparently, they're not being taught in schools anymore – so here goes. Sixty-five million were murdered in China – starved, hounded to suicide, shot as class traitors. Twenty million in the USSR, 2 million in North Korea, 1.7 million in Africa. The nightmare of Cambodia (2 million dead) is especially vivid. "Reactionaries" were sorted out from the base population on the grounds of being supporters of the old regime, having gone to school or just for wearing glasses. They were taken to the side of paddy fields and hacked to death by teenagers.

[ReformationFan]

I like this paragraph-"Of course, there's a distinction between socialism as evolved through democratic reform movements and the poisonous philosophy of Karl Marx. But what's troubling is that a new generation of Leftists – when either occupying Wall Street or the BBC – doesn't bother to make it. It speaks to a kind of moral amnesia, a forgetfulness about the facts of the past and an inability to judge what is really right and wrong. The Tea Party is EVIL because it's on the Right and it wants to cut spending. The Conservative Party is EVIL because it wants to reform the benefits system. Libertarians are EVIL because they want to wind down the welfare state. Actually a) the real effects of these systems of conservative thought are slight and b) they're all about deconstructing power rather than hording and abusing it. If you want real EVIL – if you must throw that word around with adolescent abandon – you'll find it in the communist regime of North Korea, the Islamic fascism of al-Qaeda or the dark souls of individuals who rob, murder and rape."

[SpaceBar]

The left is not only aware of communism’s death toll, they enthusiastically endorse it.

[doc1019]

Considering how much of world history has been rewritten by revisionist, most will believe anything the left feeds them.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

China is Marxist.

And is a massive source of things we import every day, and sell throughout America.

Bring businesses home. Now.

[Olog-hai]

Those who control the past control the future? Only short of divine intervention, and that always comes.

[Hardastarboard]

Let us NOT forget the little Austrian Corporal and the 13 million he murdered out right, or the 50 million who died in the war he started. Nazis are just socialists with a fancy name.

[Michael.SF.]

Nazis are just socialists with a fancy name.

And snazzy uniforms.

[cloudmountain]

China is Marxist.
And is a massive source of things we import every day, and sell throughout America.
Bring businesses home. Now.

AMEN.

[ReformationFan]

Like the saying goes, “those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.”

[GOPJ]

Maybe the BBC can defend Charlie Manson next - he killed so few compared to the Communists... but he’s still an evil son of a bitch... and that’s what they’re praising, right?

[TruthBeforeAll]

The left is not only aware of communism’s death toll, they enthusiastically endorse it.

I see the confidence of communism's supporters (mostly in academia) growing rapidly in this country. They sense that they have victory within their grasps. And, sadly, due to a completely uneducated electorate, I believe they may be right.

[lavaroise]

These people are traitors. The British seem to forget that their Opium war is now waged on them.

Eat thine own country with the blessings of foreigners and fascists, all the easier to crush you.

[Gay State Conservative]

Save for later

[MaxMax]

Yes they do endorse it. Once they have our guns they'll be the ones doing
the executions with them.

[eyeamok]

the difference between socialism and communism is the difference between seduction and rape! In the end, you still got screwed.

[logitech]

“The left is not only aware of communism’s death toll, they enthusiastically endorse it”

Yep. Even if they “seem” to be on the same side.

All gangs endorse the demise of their rival.

Bloods vs Crips come to mind.

Control is the game.

[Travis McGee]

Just watch this five minute video.

Democide: Socialism, Tyranny, Guns and Freedom

[rktman]

Reference new york city election results from Tuesday’s election.

[Pajamajan]

Just wow- unbelievable.

[TigersEye]

Let’s also remind them that killing commies is a proud American tradition.