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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (19577)	12/20/2007 7:15:50 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224779

Communism did not exist in our country, you fool.

To: American Spirit who wrote (19577)	12/20/2007 7:50:58 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224779

Marx and Engels perverted communism. Liberal sympathy for the communist ideal is amazing given its horrible history.

To: American Spirit who wrote (19577)	12/20/2007 11:15:39 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224779

Marx and Engels would call AS, a naive "utopian socialist". Communism takes away your rights and as history has shown us time after time, it is a horrible life. It cannot exist in a democracy. It was the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid the conceptual foundation for the communist revolutions and regimes of the 20th century. Marx and Engels were German-born intellectuals who worked in various cities in Europe as teachers, journalists, and political activists. In 1847 Marx and Engels joined a small group of working-class leaders in the formation of the Communist League, and shortly thereafter the two men were asked to draw up its platform. In their Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels dismissed all of the reformers who had come before them as naive “utopian socialists,” claiming that their plans for communal property could not be achieved in capitalistic societies. Marx and Engels urged the workers of the world to unite to achieve “scientific socialism,” or communism.