Or a better ability to rationalise some impossible position. That being said I can't help thinking that there is a certain callousness, that the ideal is so gre

Or a better ability to rationalise some impossible position. That being said I can't help thinking that there is a certain callousness, that the ideal is so great that it's worth breaking a few eggs, a lot of eggs if necessary. That certainly was the mentality of those who perpetrated the crimes. Lenin, Stalin and Mao were certainly thugs, but I think they were first and foremost true communist ideologists. I think western intellectuels deliberately ignored the crimes in the name of ideology.