Black Book of Communism - Review by Claire Wolfe

JPFO ^ | 2000 | Claire Wolfe

[rambo316]

The Black Book of Communism is a very informative book.

Commumism is not dead and it never was dead even with the fall of the Soviet Union. It is just going by different names.

One other thing, just be wary of those who say that they are on our side yet, still refer to America as a democracy. That is what they truly want. Just a reminder: The U.S. Constitution states in Article 4; Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a REPUBLICAN Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

[Cacique]

btt

[philman_36]

Read and consider our conversation of today. You should feel queasy, but I'll leave it to you to describe how this article made you feel.

[philman_36]

BUMP and BTTT!

[jedi]

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[jokar]

BUMP and BTTT!

[philman_36]

A Veteran's Day BUMP back at ya'll.

[Skooz]

USSR: 20 million deaths

That is incorrect. Robert Conquest put the number at 40 million. Soviet archives have validated that number.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Same here CR. Another book I can recommend highly is Death By Government by R.J. Rummel. It shows conclusively that authoritarian and totalitarian governments of all flavors eventually kill their own citizens in great numbers.

[ActionNewsBill]

If we are not careful and aware, this pervasive evil may spring in a new form. If we point fingers only at "right" or "left," depending on our own inclinations, we may fail to oppose the same phenomenon when it arises wearing a new face - a face that looks friendly, perhaps even familiar.

This concerns me as well, ever since the recent Republican sweep. We are entering dangerous territory here.

[USNBandit]

I'm not saying people shouldn't read it. It's more like a warning about Mom's Thankgiving day turkey. It's dry, but you shouldn't go without it.

[PatrickHenry]

Here's the Amazon listing for the book..

[PsyOp]

"Courtois further irritated France's intellectuals (and indeed some of the book's co-authors) by concluding that Communists actually benefitted by promoting the illusion that the Holocaust was a unique crime - thus diverting suspicion from themselves and ensuring that the "fascist right" always appeared more heinous than its twin on the left."

Two sides of the same coin. Hitler studied Stalin thoroughly and copied many of that old Communists tricks.

[PsyOp]

Must Read Ping.

[colorado tanker]

Robert Conquest put the number at 40 million. Soviet archives have validated that number. Knowing they would be closely scrutized and harshly criticized (particulaly in their home country, France), the authors were quite conservative in their estimates. So, the overall estimate of 80-100 milion dead in the 20th century is likely too low. But at some point the numbers and the horror are beyond human comprehension.

[MistyCA]

Thanks for the Ping. I will. :)

[colorado tanker]

Hegel. And here the individual struggle for moral perfection is raised to an historical level. The entire history of mankind is nothing but the realization of this ideal which continually struggles, because it is "out of step with reality." Marx has said that communism is the utopia wherein mankind is restored to his true human nature, a return to walk in step with reality.

Therein lies the rub. Marxism teaches that through the operation of the dialectic in history a communist society will produce a "new man" who will cheerfully surrender his money and property to labor not for himself and his family but for society.

The authors of the Declaration of Independence, under the influence of Christianity, in contrast believed man is inherently flawed and that a republican government must be crafted with checks and balances to reduce the damage such flaws can cause.

When the inherently flawed policies of Marx are implemented they inevitably fail to produce the "new man" and the government resorts to persecution, execution, famine, the Gulag, "reeducation" and the like to coerce the change, which measures are also doomed to failure.

Western liberals are fond of arguing that "pure" communism has never been tried, but they are wrong because all such attempts have led to the same tyranny, horror and bloodshed. And they always will.

[Zeroisanumber]

Martin Amis just recently came out with a similar book called "Korba the Dread and the 20 Million". "Korba" was a aka for Stalin back in his partisan days.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Ummm, it has been written. That is what the book review is about...JFK

[Noumenon]

So where are back at the starting point: what is nature, what is mankind, what is divine? Those questions are as important--if not more important--than recognizing that being out of step with reality is bad.

The most succinct take on that statement is from the tormented and sometimes demented visionary Phillip K. Dick:

"Reality is that which, when you stop believeing in it, doesn't go away."

He would have known...