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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (8273)	3/13/2001 2:35:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think that communist principle is itself if you include that it is imposed by force. An argument could be made that it is less "intrinsically evil" then Nazi thought, but IMO both philosophies are evil, and the actions they motivated even more so. The communist ideal was that the state would eventually "wither away." Didn't work that way. I don't think it could ever work that way, human nature being human nature, but I don't see in it the special inherent evil that I see in a philosophy that would weed out its own people out of pathological racism. Sure, other events killed more people and plenty of examples of mass genocide exist, but usually we kill "other" people--anonymous peoples in foreign places. I understand that the Nazis didn't consider Jews to be their own people, but they were still living amongst the chosen people under the supposed protection of the German government. That seems like an especially nasty business to me. Or maybe it just seems more acute to me because I grew up among Holocaust survivors and their families so their stories have a special resonance. Karen