...and to deny their existence is to demonstrate ignorance.
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How interesting. Sounds like something out of the CPUSA readings...ethical standards? Would you care to enlighten us as to ethical standards and morals in the world of hard communism??? If Joseph Stalin were alive, he would probably like to hear it too...
Joseph Stalin would not need to hear of it. He used to promote "exemplary workers" like Stakhanovites, military heroes (till they were removed from the public life as enemies of the people) and other suchlike and hold them up as living examples of proper, correct, patriotic and ethical behavior and morals, for everyone to imitate and aspire to. Thus there were standards, as you could see. Their quality is another matter. There was even a formalized and very primitive written code, for the young generation. A good example of [and for] the communist youth would be one Pavlik Morozov, a youngster who reported on his father during the collectivization, and got killed for it. The father was disappeared, of course, and Pavlik became an official icon and a standard for others to measure against.
One of the characters in Solzeneitsen's First Circle demonstrated the moral view of the commie. He essentially rationalized the horrors by saying that they were the result of history on the move beyond man's understanding. In other words he replaced the God which Christians fall back on for support and understanding with History.
Communism is a form of religion wherein the State replaces God.
How interesting. Sounds like something out of the CPUSA readings
When I first scanned over that I saw it as PCUSA.
(For them's as don't get it: CPUSA --> Commies. PCUSA --> leftish Presbyterian denomination.)