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

To: TimF who wrote (8377)	3/13/2001 8:04:15 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not advocating communism, I'm just not vilifying it. Neo and some others here seem to have the need to do that. Sure democracy can be evil. What else is a lynch mob but democracy in action? Is he guilty? Yeah, yeah, string him up! The point of contention was whether communism was evil. It is not, as you point out, by nature evil, any more than democracy is necessarily good by its nature. Marxism, as espoused by Marx was a utopian movement achieved through revolutionary overthrow of a non-representative and illegitimate government. This is not unlike the U.S. revolution. It is a popular uprising in a situation where most people aren't in control of their government and thereby don't have a legitimate alternative or stake in the society which they toiled to create. That is by most meaningful definitions democratic, or of the people. In that sense, it is noble because it seeks to improve the lot of MANY people as opposed to a FEW. Stalin was not a Marxist, IMO and that of most political scientists. He was a strong arm, totalitarian dictator in the long line of other dictators with both right and left leanings, like Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, Samoza, General Tu, Ferdinand Marcos, Idi Amin and many, many others. There is not much difference in their behaviors or methods, irrespective of the ideology.