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My contention that Communism neccessitates a dictator and repression has been proved by history. You can call for absolute equality and no big bad bossman to focus all your hate on, but who runs the bossless society? Lenin knew who the boyo was and set the template for Communism in practice.
I read Alexa's essay and agree that the USSR was exploitative and ridden by its own perverse homemade class system. But Marx was a crank who believed that other classes were there to be fought and crushed, so no wonder the quakery was magnified and his scapegoat mentality taken to its logical extreme.
Lenin and others were killing and hating long before then. Not that there were no grievances, but communists were failures because they appealed to the worst in peoples' base instinct to go and hang someone they didn't like.
You can say anything about a doctrine when it's still on paper. But when you run it through its paces you then judge by what you get.
It's easy to say 'Oooo, that was never proper Communism', be the number of Communist governments one or two-hundred. But on that basis, would YOU take the risk that a new Communist government allowed somewhere would buck all trends and suddenly be all nice and fluffy?!
Me neither.
I read Alexa's essay and agree that the USSR was exploitative and ridden by its own perverse homemade class system. But Marx was a crank who believed that other classes were there to be fought and crushed, so no wonder the quakery was magnified and his scapegoat mentality taken to its logical extreme.
Russian communism ceased to exist as soon as Stalin came to power.
Lenin and others were killing and hating long before then. Not that there were no grievances, but communists were failures because they appealed to the worst in peoples' base instinct to go and hang someone they didn't like.
You can say anything about a doctrine when it's still on paper. But when you run it through its paces you then judge by what you get.
It's easy to say 'Oooo, that was never proper Communism', be the number of Communist governments one or two-hundred. But on that basis, would YOU take the risk that a new Communist government allowed somewhere would buck all trends and suddenly be all nice and fluffy?!
Me neither.
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