Thank you.
ANd I haven’t read Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. I don’t think my uneducated brain could handle it. I’ve read enough leftist twaddle from politicians here to know what stinks, though.
My husband was raised in a communist Eastern Bloc country and his father also was incarcerated in a German work camp making munitions that were used for killing his countrymen and others, not as horrible as your father. I have heard stories.
“ANd I haven’t read Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc.”
You haven’t missed a whole lot. Most of it it pretty primitive, simplistic crap - pseudo-science fueled by envy and resentment. Karl Marx et al are to economics what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is to spirituality.
Mao on the other hand is a great read, with respect to irregular warfare and the utter destruction of an urban based conventional war machine. One of his treatises on guerrilla warfare was published by Presidio Press, and used to be required reading for USMC officers.
Some of it can be found here, courtesy of the Communists.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/military-writings/index.htm
(Mao also emphasizes keeping in supply by plundering your enemies’ resources)