[Senator_Blutarski]

Were they ever interrogated by the KGB?

You have confused communism with the Soviet Union.

Over the past 40 years we've had lots of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Look at the social programs in the US. Look at the class envy politics of the Democrats. Look at the slippery slide toward an ever bigger government. The fingerprints of Karl Marx are everywhere.

[Batrachian]

You make the mistake of viewing Marxist economic theory in a vacuum. The sort of oppresion that happened in the Soviet Union was not a by-product or coincidence that just happened to go with Marxist economic doctrine, it was the muscle that was needed to enforce Marxism. Don't confuse a welfare state with a communist police state. One may well lead to the other, but it doesn't have to (Example: Sweden), and it's not the same thing.

Although in a sense you're right. What we saw in the Soviet union was actually Stalinism. Still, I think the sentiments expressed in the article are overblown and self-pitying, and PC is alive and well anyway.

[SemperFidelis]

Well stated!