Fantomas
23rd October 2001, 22:41
Communism is a system that feeds on misery. If you are well off, you wouldn't even think of going there. But Marxists' main trait is propaganda. Desperate, poor people will beleive in just about anything to escape their misery. I can understand that. What Communists do well is point out the defects of a Capitalistic society (as if there were any perfect societies); what they don't do well is correct the problems it mentions. Churchill had two sayings when referring to Left Wingers:
1) If at age 20, you're not a Liberal, you don't have a heart. If at 30, you're still a Liberal, you don't have a brain.
2) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Anybody here that has read the works of Marx and Engel knows well that a Communistic society is an Utopian society, and Utopia is better left to fantasy movies. Anybody with two ounces of gray matter will understand that Communism will never be achieved.
When we're young, most of us are Liberals and/or radicals and want to "fix" the world. As we mature, we realize that what was true in our lives 10 or 15 years ago, is not necessarily true now.
One of the stages in the building of a Communist society is the "dictator of the proletariat". Any dictator, Left or Right, under any excuse, that violates individual rights is wrong and oppressive. Those that insist that Marxism will work "if implemented properly" are in for a rude awakening. Since the Marxist concept is so seriously flawed, it could never be properly implemented.
The only way a Marxist society could exist is thru a dictatorship, coercion, misinformation, and oppression.
Although there might have been good intentions in starting a Marxist society, on the long run it will turn oppressive and brutal. Marxism has been tried many times and always failed and always will; it can only be maintined in place by oppression. Those that still defend Communism do so because of ignorance about the ideology or because they're despots. Some of the ways these Marxists try to defend this ideology is by revising its history as to not have to justify its failure or by not acknowledging the facts of history. You will never meet a rational Marxist because facts and rationale is a Communist's worst enemy. That's why one of the first victims of any Marxist society is an open and free press.
1) If at age 20, you're not a Liberal, you don't have a heart. If at 30, you're still a Liberal, you don't have a brain.
2) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Anybody here that has read the works of Marx and Engel knows well that a Communistic society is an Utopian society, and Utopia is better left to fantasy movies. Anybody with two ounces of gray matter will understand that Communism will never be achieved.
When we're young, most of us are Liberals and/or radicals and want to "fix" the world. As we mature, we realize that what was true in our lives 10 or 15 years ago, is not necessarily true now.
One of the stages in the building of a Communist society is the "dictator of the proletariat". Any dictator, Left or Right, under any excuse, that violates individual rights is wrong and oppressive. Those that insist that Marxism will work "if implemented properly" are in for a rude awakening. Since the Marxist concept is so seriously flawed, it could never be properly implemented.
The only way a Marxist society could exist is thru a dictatorship, coercion, misinformation, and oppression.
Although there might have been good intentions in starting a Marxist society, on the long run it will turn oppressive and brutal. Marxism has been tried many times and always failed and always will; it can only be maintined in place by oppression. Those that still defend Communism do so because of ignorance about the ideology or because they're despots. Some of the ways these Marxists try to defend this ideology is by revising its history as to not have to justify its failure or by not acknowledging the facts of history. You will never meet a rational Marxist because facts and rationale is a Communist's worst enemy. That's why one of the first victims of any Marxist society is an open and free press.