Socialism - the real story

Posted by dbhalling 12 years ago to History
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This article points out the illogical response of people to socialism vs the Nazis.

I recently saw a bicyclist wearing a USSR hammer and sickle. I pointed out to my daughter ex-boyfriend that I found that incredibly offensive. He asked me why. I stated that it was more offensive than wearing a swastika. Since he was raised jewish he understood this point, but it took awhile to get him to see that the USSR had probably killed many more people and jews than Nazi Germany. It's a tragedy.

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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 12 years ago
    That was an excellent article. What does one do to one's soul to embrace a system that has slaughtered more people than any other, and assume a pose of preening moral superiority while doing so? I still remember, as a six-year-old child, hearing the phrase "from each according to his ability to each according to his need," and being absolutely incredulous that anyone--much less the grown-up who was repeating it to me--could actually believe it. Now I know that those who believe it are murderers in spirit, and if they ever achieve any kind of power, they're murderers in practice as well. But I regret that it took me as long as it did to realize that, and that I did not challenge the many people, including professors while I was at college and graduate school, who either made excuses for Communism's horrors or championed its ideology. I offer my writing as atonement.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, although environmentalism is a close second. The Atlas Society has a post on that point also as do I on my website.
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  • Posted by LionelHutz 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Also - let us not forget the more recent history of our witnessing of Tiananmen Square massacre and the following granting of Permanent Most Favored Nation trading status.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Good points. I think it is also because so many including FDR are in agreement with socialism. They like the false narrative that socialism and nazi Germany are polar opposites.
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  • Posted by LionelHutz 12 years ago
    Absolutely excellent article. I believe this is not seriously looked at because there is blood on our own hands, so to speak. Before WW2, our political leaders and leading newspapers spoke well of "Uncle Joe" Stalin. Then these leaders allied with the Soviets in WW2 and sat down in Yalta at the end to carve up Europe, consigning millions to a Communist fate. Some then gave the "Uncle Joe" treatment to a man named Mao as he took his country into a civil war, the outcome of which eventually was the legitimizing of his government in the UN via the unseating the former 'permanent member' of non-Communist (Republic of) China. To call Communism an evil even worse than Naziism would necessarily require an introspection many in our country would simply rather not do.
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