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Not that the person I replied to was treating them as such. I'm a socialist myself so I feel sympathy for a communist, even if I don't agree with him.
by mahouse 12y ago
Not that the person I replied to was treating them as such.
I'm a socialist myself so I feel sympathy for a communist, even if I don't agree with him.
- murbard2 12y agoOf course they are normal people, that's what makes it terrifying. Communism killed hundred of millions of people. And yes, the French communist party supported Stalinism for a long time.
- megalodon 12y agoCommunism - the utopian ideology - didn't kill hundreds of millions of people, because it has never existed. It has been used several times as a means to reach power, after which the dictator(ships) have chosen to either adopt it to his/their own liking (Stalinism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, <insert>ism) or practically abolish it as is the case with modern-day China. Fully developed communism is supposed to (alas, probably never will) be 'a stateless, classless and moneyless society, structured upon common ownership of the means of production.' [1] That's about as far from Stalinism you can get. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism