Indeed...

Again you are correct. Huxley called his feel good drug Soma in Brave New World. Pot and pharmaceuticals serve only to keep the slaves from thinking for themselves - a mortal sin in the Socialist religion!

"and then they have to give 100% of their work output to the tribal chief, the appeal quickly dissipates." that would seem to describe present day America. Everyone else has "rights" but you, and if you tell them "no" they start with the namecalling crap, and the other 90% of the country dully nods their empty heads and say "yea, man", and go back to smoking their dope. Is there any other reason they have leagalized pot?

Communism will never be defeated until people - of their own free will and choice - decide that no one else will be responsible for their own lives but themselves. As long as there are those who want others to take care of them, there will be those willing to take advantage of that to gain power.

You are exactly correct. Those of a "commune culture" mentality seem drawn to a nomadic tribal lifestyle as their ideal. When they find out that living as a hunter-gatherer is hard work and dangerous and then they have to give 100% of their work output to the tribal chief, the appeal quickly dissipates. +1 for you.

Look at the commune culture, it seems to hae died out after a few years, there are numerous instances of such collaboration only being a cover for some despot to rule.

I used to cringe when people went around saying "Communism is dead" - what! Reagan fought against communism, but communists have a tactic of pretending defeat, while working all the harder behind the scenes. Gorby came over here and never gave up his party card, got access to public schools, under the guise of promoting the green agenda, while never having given up his Party card.. Next thing, we have a bunch of brainwashed kids, celebrating Lenin's birthday as Earth Day. How many liberals even know that, they have just bought the rhetoric. Of course they call those on the right crazy, that is in any good commie training manual - bring in as many incompetent psychologists as possible, get as many people as possible under their care, and that is how to bring a nation down from within. The Communist Party USA, bit in Wisc, and even North Dakota, in the 50s, used such a manual. Communism is not and never was dead, and won't be as long as we have a dumbed down nation of sheep.

Actually, Reagan destroying communism is a myth. It’s the references to the Berlin wall that we make that connection. He once stood in front of it while demanding it be torn down. So, when it did come down, it was easy to to create a fitting political message, tying his speech to the event. The truth is: one day the guards at the wall got sloppy. A couple women didn’t have the proper papers to cross from East to West, but the soldiers at the wall said for them to go anyway. The women were so astonished they contacted others and told their families and friends they weren’t requiring papers at the wall. Pretty soon, there was a mob. The next thing you know it was beyond the guards ability to stop the flow. That’s how the wall dividing Germany really came down --a simple flashpoint. Our wheat embargo did have serious consequences on the former USSR, but our farmers were also hurt in the process. You had farmers in states like Kansas with thee years of wheat they couldn’t unload. Russia through it’s very long history has expanded and contracted it’s borders fairly regular no matter what political structure was afoot.

The Black Book of Communism is a good starting point. After removing Communist Core from the curriculum, of course.

You are wrong on both points. First, communism does work after a fashion in monasteries and similar institutions. Note the intense indoctrination and considerable sacrifices. But from them we got beer and brandy and much else. They were economic institutions attached to medieval manors. However, they were eclipsed by the universities, which were the parallel institutions of the medieval cities.

Second, as for the morality of inheritance taxes, you need to query khalling and dhalling here in the Gulch. Good Objectivists both, they assert that dead people have no rights. Therefore, property must be transferred before death. However, ask them; don't take my interpretation of their statements.

The article says NYT ignores Soviety crimes against humanity. If you actually follow the link to the article, the NYT talks about killings of East Germans trying to get to freedom in West Berlin and that the collapse of the wall came from opposition from East Germans opposed to the ruling regime. Rather than ignoring communisms crimes against humanity, the article is actually attributing them to the fall of the Berlin wall and downplaying Reagan's role. I am not knowledgeable about how much of it Reagan caused, but it's clear the article does not ignore communisms crimes.

Agreed 90%. Thomas Paine did propose a welfare state, funded by a steep inheritance tax, in "Rights of Man", but I think we can excuse him because when he wrote it, it had never been tried anywhere. Now we know better.

What we need is to publish, and demand that our schools teach, a history of the world's communist countries and how they have treated their people. The public schools I went to never mention the topic, because of course they are effectively owned by the teachers' unions, and they are all about enacting communism here. Which is why they love President Obama.

The closest I've found is this good biography of Mao Tse Tung: http://www.amazon.com/Mao-Story-Jung-Cha...

true.

Yes they have. And the Rockefellers can rejoice too.

To their way of thinking, they were doing a necessary work.

These people are so anti capitalism and the freedom that must go with it that they will support anything that is against it. They in my opinion have absolutely no regard for the people citizens of America because they are evil. Ayn Rand has said it over and over again. These poor excuses for humanity have no regard for it. We are marching towards that end and it is gaining speed. The next step will be censorship and if they take control of the internet we are sunk.

Of course, Reagan didn't defeat communism. Communism is a world-wide plague. What he defeated was a Russian communist dictatorship. And then, only for that particular time and place. It was, however, a good first step. If America had had the guts to follow Reagan's example and continued to stand up to and challenge communism as he did, then there would have been a chance of defeating it. It is true of an even greater plague, which is world-wide Islamic aggression. Dealing with it as we do is like trying to explain to a tiger why he shouldn't eat you.

I like that video in Uncommonsense's link where Castro claims he is not a Communist.
I would wager Obama is a far bigger liar and about every time he moves his lips.
"If you want your health car plan--etc., etc. ad nauseam."
Obama has claimed that he is not a socialist. My evil twin Comrade Citizen would grin with his teeth and say, "For sure he's not!"
Our Liar-In-Chief even claims that back in 1980 he would be regarded as a mainstream Republican!
How's that for a blatant whopper?

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/....

Did you mean Regressives ?

Agreed, but given the title of the article you would not think this written by a regressive. (Progressive gives them way too much credit)

Marx's wet-dream was that a perfect communist society would be classless and stateless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_...
and all would equally share in the productive fruits of the labor of all. This is such a mis-reading of the nature of men that I am at a loss to understand its appeal over the last 135 years all over the Earth.

Hmmm. Reminds me of our current pres.

Because the progressives are masters at Freudian projection. Linking conservatism and Nazism together is in their political interest.

Socialism normally evolves into dictatorship, but a revolution (as opposed to evolution) is possible. Often, however, such "revolution" also is Communistic.