To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (13378 ) 10/8/1998 11:30:00 PM From: Dayuhan Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Democracies have been conquered by external communist aggression (hardly a phenomenon unique to Communism). None have ever fallen to internal communist insurrection. Western European countries have had Communist parties for years; the leaders travel in Russia, they worship at Lenin's tomb, they pull all the same stunts that they try in other countries. As long as their is a democratic alternative, it doesn't work. All successful communist insurgencies have replaced corrupt, impotent, crumbled regimes that clung to power through violence and repression. This is the soil in which the seed of communism thrives; it is much easier and more effective to deny it the conditions in which it grows than to try to stamp out the weed after it's taken root.
