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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (177635)9/5/2001 10:26:05 AM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
re: assumed the mantle of religion and thus acquired the killing skills.

I'm afraid you are just incorrect on that account. IMHO, Communism and its cousin National Socialism, used mass murder as a means of securing power, keeping power, and removing potential rivals / potential threats. It was probably considered by them as just another tool of politics.

I believe that the "cult of personality" occurred once most outside political opposition was crushed. State murder was then turned inward (into the ruling party itself) and to the population in general. It became a survival skill one needed to develop, to keep from being culled from the herd.
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