Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Neocon who wrote (59246)	9/20/2002 4:33:50 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't think mass murder was part of the program in the Russian or Chinese revolutions. They were started by intellectuals, as such things usually are, and then the movements were co-opted my ruthless power seeking men. And for the Nazis mass murder wasn't really the program for the people initially. Nor was it ever really out in the open. I don't think mass murder is ever the program (except for a very few, very strange organizations- like the Aryan Brotherhood), it just becomes a handy sideshow, to galvanize people, through either patriotic zeal, righteous acting out, or fear. (IMO) And I don't think it is all that predictable, or containable.