I’ve said it before I don’t understand why communism has managed to avoid being classified right there along with fascism. People still seem to believe that it’s a benevolent if slightly naive system. When a system reaches the 100 million fatality mark, it isn’t benevolent or naive.
HT Two Wrongs
November 10, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Those who support and promote communism are one of two things.
a) naive
b) power-hungry
The naive think that, somehow, this time, it will be different.
The power-hungry see themselves as the eventual leaders, controlling things as they see fit. Most probably view themselves as benevolent….but not all.
November 10, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Brings to mind a line from "Duck, You Sucker", a 1971 flick the wife and I saw the other night.
Rod Steiger, as a Mexican peasant/bandit angrily tells James Coburn; "Let me tell you about revolutions, I know about revolutions. It's always the people with money that start the revolutions and the people with no money fight for them. In the end the people with no money are no better off and the people with the money start it all over again."
Seems to be some truth there, the naivete of the well-heeled often fuels the engine of "revolution" in our times.
November 11, 2009 at 2:41 am
I know a few people who really need to see this collection. Several times.
November 11, 2009 at 2:57 am
Those who do not learn the lessons of history and bound to repeat its mistakes. How many will Communism have to fail before people get it? Even as an economic system in China, it has been somewhat modified from the purist version which is a gist is only take what you need and put in all you've got. Who in his right mind would do that unless he is coerced?
Even today without looking at the past, can anyone name a prosperous communist nation or one that respects human rights?
When a political system posits that only matter exists, then one can expect a rule without regard for the spiritual or one that replaces God with the State.
November 11, 2009 at 7:44 am
Amen to that! But nevertheless in Europe–in Ireland where I live–there remains a great fascination with the possibilities of Marxism. The Marxist clamouring increases in intensity with the buckles and heaves in the economy.