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Why do you only mention Communists? Why not also probe into the motivations of Mussolini, Hitler, Quisling, Pinochet, Franco? That is assuming that you haven't
by slurgfest 14y ago
Why do you only mention Communists? Why not also probe into the motivations of Mussolini, Hitler, Quisling, Pinochet, Franco? That is assuming that you haven't defined away the problem: the right-wing aren't terrorists, they're freedom fighters.
- stfu 14y agoBut what about the Nicaraguan Contras, the Tibet Autonomous region, or the Chechnyan rebels. How could he have missed these? ucee054 was making an example of how the argument of the original post is having substantial flaws. Not everything remotely related to politics is intended as some ideological political statement.
- gwern 14y ago> But what about the Nicaraguan Contras, the Tibet Autonomous region, or the Chechnyan rebels. How could he have missed these? What about them? Tibet is still ruled by China, and Chechnya is, last I checked, still ruled by Russia. The only of the three even remotely successful is the Contras, and the president elected after their dissolution doesn't seem to have owed much to them or do much that they would have wanted.
- ucee054 14y agoThe reason for mentioning Russia and China is that they were the most spectacular successes that I could think of, gaining for Lenin and Mao control of huge, superpower territories. I don't believe Franco's success was anywhere near this scale. The reason for not mentioning Hitler is that Nazi Germany ended as a smoking crater, one reason it wouldn't be as brain dead easy to argue for Hitler's "success". I wish I could give right wing examples, care to help me out with some? Does George Washington count?