Posted on 03/23/2009 10:30:58 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Number 6 alone is enough - the Leftists run the educational and media systems, and use them to block widespread knowledge of the evils of communism. And it’s not an accident - it’s the reason they’re there.
Title needs a Fix up. Mods can do it.
Great Article!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Communism is now Communitarianism and is dominated by aging Community Organizers who have been glorified and elevated to POTUS!!! (Poor Old Tired-out Useless Socialist)
I’m sorry, did you say, “Obamunism”, Mr. Prager?
as a child, we prayed every night to protect us from the communists.
communism is evil.
Ha ha ha!!! Same difference, right???
Another reason why you see many more evil Nazi than Commie movies: Stalin had his men killing scripts before they were produced. CAIR is doing the same thing today.
Calling people Nazi and/or Facist eminates from the Frankfurt School and the concept that was created called “Critical Theory”. That is where the use of these phrases has come from.... Do a Goggle...
Last night on KOS, some moron wrote a diary on how GREAT the Hungarian Socialist Revolution of 1919 was, and wouldn’t it be GREAT if it happened here???
Of course, this MORON never actually STUDIED the Hungarian Socialist revolt of 1919, also known as THE RED TERROR, he just swallowed what he read on a Marxist website whole.
I LOVE how MORONS that say, “Wouldn’t it be GREAT to live under SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM?!”, have never actually LIVED under Socialism/Communism, while those that have, will defend Democray at ANY cost...
Millions died fighting communism, and Americans elected one. Go figure...
Fascism and Communism/Socialism
For many decades, the leftists have been propagating the false dichotomy that the choice confronting the world is only: communism or fascisma dictatorship of the left or of an alleged rightwith the possibility of a free society, of capitalism, dismissed and obliterated, as if it had never existed.
The Presidential Candidates 1968, The Objectivist, June 1968, 5.
[Some moderates are trying to] revive that old saw of pre-World War II vintage, the notion that the two political opposites confronting us, the two extremes, are: fascism versus communism.
The political origin of that notion is more shameful than the moderates would care publicly to admit. Mussolini came to power by claiming that that was the only choice confronting Italy. Hitler came to power by claiming that that was the only choice confronting Germany. It is a matter of record that in the German election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Naziswith the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.
It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of Freedom or dictatorship? into Which kind of dictatorship?thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choiceaccording to the proponents of that fraudis: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism).
That fraud collapsed in the 1940s, in the aftermath of World War II. It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territorythat both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the statethat both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leadersthat under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling cliquethat fascism is not the product of the political right, but of the leftthat the basic issue is not rich versus poor, but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian governmentwhich means: capitalism versus socialism.~ Ayn Rand
Extremism, or The Art of Smearing,
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 180.
Here’s the answer:
Left = Communist
Good question, good points and a good article!
History is written by the winners of its conflicts, even if the losers were right and the winners were wrong.
No, that's not the answer!
Left = totalitarianism
That's why I say, Communist, Nazi, close enough, same thing.
... 2. Communism is based on lovely sounding theories; Nazism is based on heinous sounding theories.
Intellectuals, among whom are the people who write history, are seduced by words -- so much so that deeds are deemed considerably less significant. Communism's words are far more intellectually and morally appealing than the moronic and vile racism of Nazism. The monstrous evils of Communists have not been focused on nearly as much as the monstrous deeds of the Nazis. The former have been regularly dismissed as perversions of a beautiful doctrine (though Christians who committed evil in the name of Christianity are never regarded by these same people as having perverted a beautiful doctrine), whereas Nazi atrocities have been perceived (correctly) as the logical and inevitable results of Nazi ideology.
This seduction by words while ignoring deeds has been a major factor in the ongoing appeal of the Left to intellectuals. How else explain the appeal of a Che Guevara or Fidel Castro to so many Left-wing intellectuals, other than that they care more about beautiful words than about vile deeds?
... 6. There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of Communist atrocities compared to those of the Nazis. Whereas, both Right and Left loathe Nazism and teach its evil history, the Left dominates the teaching profession, and therefore almost no one teaches Communist atrocities. As much as intellectuals on the Left may argue that they loathe Stalin or the North Korean regime, few on the Left loathe Communism. As the French put it, "pas d'enemis a la gauche," which in English means "no enemies on the Left." This is certainly true of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban Communism. Check your local university's courses and see how many classes are given on Communist totalitarianism or mass murder compared to the number of classes about Nazism's immoral record.
Nailed It!
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