Saturday, March 03, 2007

Fools for Communism

I think communism or socialism - passing the control of society into the hands of the state - has been one of the worse things that has happened to humanity.

All the left-wing revolutions resulted in abject destruction, and the murder, torture of millions of people - producing the exact opposite of what most of its defenders had hoped for.

Example: the French Revolution. The French overthrew their King, killed off most of the nobility- to create a better society. But what happened. The Revolutionaries initiated the Terror - which slaughtered god knows how many French people. And in the end, they voted for Napoleon Bonaparte - a small corsican officer - to be become their Emperor who dragged the nation into a bloody European war and fanned the flames of nationalism and mass conscription- which eventually resulted in WW1 and WW2. Talk about getting out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Need I say anything more about the revolutions in Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot, Cuba etc.. All unmitigated horror stories for millions of innocent people.

It seems the ONLY people still defending these despots are the academics- people who sit in ivory towers, safe in their tax-payed tenures - who bombast the evils of capitalism and the glories of communism.

I read this article- Fools for Communism by Glenn Gavin. Check it out.

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