Stalin murdered at least 20 million people, and probably more, in order to bring about a “fair, just, equitable society,” while the progressive reporters and editors of the New York Times cheered him on. Mao murdered more than 70 Million in the Course of the ‘Cultural Revolution;’ which began as an exercise of college students seeking to purge their society of ideological impurity (does that sound familiar?). And then there was Cambodia, where the ideological soul brothers of Antifa murdered 2 Million people; including by bashing children’s brains out against trees to punish them for the political incorrectness of their parents.
Whether they call themselves “Communists,” “Progressives,” “Democratic Socialists,” or “Anarcho-Communists,” it doesn’t matter. These are just different labels for the same thing; an ideology where the individual is absolutely subjugated to the state.
Update: The New York Times publishes a love letter to the murderous ideology of Communism.
I be they integrate a climate protest into next year’s May Day. Guess the Commies didn’t get it together this year. Of course, they think they matter. They don’t.
I wonder if Nathan Damigo is celebrating the very European ideology of communism.
Do you really think the same people who shout their abortion, think the number of children you can have should be limited because of climate change, and support the death tax care that communists murdered babies.
I’m pretty sure they want to exterminate the children of the 1% and collect their inheritance themselves.
I’m pretty sure they want to exterminate the children of the 1% and collect their inheritance themselves.”
They ARE the 1% — and the children of the 1% — and they intend not only to keep their inheritances …and whatever-else they can steal.
Let’s keep the blame where it belongs, include the German National Socialists amongst the guilty. And it’s equally-evil offshoot; Islamic Ba’athism.
If I could see that the Russian and/or Chinese people, living with the horrors of Communism for many decades, had ever mounted a credible movement toward a better form of government in their countries, I would have a lot more hope.
The Bolshevik Revolution has its centennial this year; Mao’s seizing of power is nearly 70 years ago. Counter-revolution? No evidence.
Well, communism would send us all in the 1st world back to stupid and that will certainly even things out everywhere on the planet… except for our rulers and their special boot-lickers.
Always have to laugh at the dopes like the young guy in the pic. Betcha he’s only learned about the “good” things that come with socialism (and then only the democratized Euro-socialism that only work in small laboratories like the Scandinavian countries. Also bet he isn’t giving up the things in life which capitalism has brought him, like his iPhone.
@2 communist countries in the world today: china, north korea, cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, none of them European.
Hmmm, he’ll be on of the first sent to the rice paddies. Or, twelve-fourteen hours picking lettece, cucumbers and tomatoes in the Central Valley for the tables of Hierarchy he mistakenly-bethought he was part of.
Then the ditch along the side of the road…
“But, but I was loyal. I marched. I agitated. I’m one of you. I fought for the Cause.”
“Yes, a troublemaker. Top of the list.”
“…Next!”
@10 – Yes, exactly.
Then again… after the dipshit troublemakers are done away with, one could argue that communism turns out to be quite conservative afterwards… overly conservative. (As in, totalitarian. And we all know how open-minded they are about race, religion, gender/sexuality, free speech, etc. They’re more like the Puritans, and nothing resembling a Pride Parade at all.)
“The Night of the Long Knives” was a similar cleansing of the Party’s homosexuals, free-thinkers, and the ardent anti-capitalists.
It’s startling to see how “gay” the NSDAP leadership was before the housecleaning to make the Party more acceptable to the German General Staff and the conservative political and business leadership of the Weimaran Republic. Doubly-ironic considering the situation before the run-up to WW1 in German military and business circles; Moltke, Fritz Krupp, etc…