I didn't say that Henry Wallace was a Communist, just that he was hard left. He was a "fellow traveler." But I have to disagree that international Communism died with Trotsky. What about China, Korea, VietNam, Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, Grenada, El Salvador, Peru, I am starting to lose track. The Progressive Party wasn't Trotskyite, it was infiltrated by people loyal to Moscow.
Why does Communism have to originate out of Russia?
Why can't it just be a point of view that anyone could develop on their own?
If you want to talk history of communism, why not go back to Machiavelli? (ha ha, had to pull Discourses off the bookshelf to even get close to spelling it correctly)
IMHO, the origin (as far as I've read) starts with Machiavelli. The conclusions may be different, but the train of thought is the same. Unlike the Dems, think of the whole and not the single person. It's ruthless, but some have to be sacrificed for the good of the rest. This is fundamental, looking at reality versus looking at the way people seem to "wish" things were and have based current policy off of.
We live in a country where many people believe it is possible that Alien Gonzalez's father was "brainwashed" in Cuba and came over here to get his son but the brainwashing was so incredible that he actually wanted to go back.
I'm not suggesting in any way that I support communism, just that I wish our political system would get a little reality instead of hype when choosing policy. It may not be good for Alien to go back, but for the good of 250 million Americans and possibly 6 billion in the world, it was a hell of a good decision to send him back. |
