[Ma Li]

I've been working in China for a few years now. This description is right on the nose.

But never forget that when communism came to this country, it found willing recipients, who knew exactly what they were doing.

The climate was created by the communist leaders, yes, and without that climate things would have been different--but the ordinary man was quick to take advantage of that climate, and created a decade of mass chaos, murder and destruction. It wasn't so much the party leaders stirring people up that caused all this, as their simply creating an environment where the ordinary person saw a chance to shoot down the neighbor he was always jealous of, the students to get back at that teacher who didn't give them a good grade, the son and daughter to persecute the parent who made them do the unpleasant thing that was good for them, or the spiteful to get revenge on those they hated. The root cause was not communism...the root cause was evil already present in man, to which communism gave full vent.

[Nita Nupress]

Welcome to FR.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The root cause was not communism...the root cause was evil already present in man, to which communism gave full vent.

And why Castro's Defense of the Revolution and Chavez's Bolivarian Circle block watches have been so successful.