Comments on: Oh, Communists, how we love you!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:08:43 +0000

Another Communist,

I’ll bite and pretend you really believe in the cause. You’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s not about the people or egalitarianism, it’s all about you having power. I’m sorry, but you’ll never have control over me,

Friend of Liberty

By: Another Communist

Another Communist — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:53:57 +0000

We communists also have gained wisdom since last century. We too remember history’s atrocities.

Next time we will put better people in charge: ourselves.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:07:10 +0000

Marxism/Communism is easily responsible for the deliberate death of at least 50 million human beings, and this fact should be embedded forever in the consciousness of every thinking person. This atrocity is unequaled in modern history, and as Jeffrey has pointed out, is typically glossed-over or ignored by the Left and its sympathizers.

And we have not even mentioned the great economic inefficiency, waste, low material standard of living, and fundamental irrationality that characterize Marxist/Communist forms of social organization.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:02:29 +0000

I… move to amend?? Lame blogging, guys.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:39:27 +0000

I second ChrisB. Stop beating your chest and calm down.

By: Michael A. Clem

Michael A. Clem — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:46:45 +0000

Why on earth would the US Communist Party have info on gulags and purges and such? Have we had gulags here in America?? Or are we supposed to assume that Soviet Communists would forward such info to their American counterparts?

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:24:30 +0000

You know what book needs more attention? The Black Book of Communism. This is a chilling treatise.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:12:24 +0000

A Communist,

Let us not forget the mass murder under Communist governments. How many tens of millions died under Lenin and especially Stalin, and how many more tens of millions died under Mao?

But I guess mass murder does not matter when The Cause reigns supreme. And I guess, at least in this case, the deaths of all those individuals does not matter to those at the NYT.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:08:37 +0000

There were no crimes in the Soviet Union before Stalin?

As regards the approach here, I’ll go for the easy mental experiment. Imagine if the existing Nazi Party of the US (surely there is one) donated its archives to New York University…. What would a story on that read like?

By: A Communist

A Communist — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:59:29 +0000

The gulags, the dictatorships, the repression, and the poverty were all the result of having capitalists control the rest of the world. Absent that, it would all work out just as we claim.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:02:48 +0000

I am in disagreement with communism as much as the next guy. You, however, seem to be so passionate about your sentiment as to seem paranoid. Chill out. If you want to ramble, then you should visit Free Republic.

By: Kenneth R Gregg

Kenneth R Gregg — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:42:09 +0000

One of the most important events for libertarians was the great purge by CPUSA and its minions, successful by the end of the 1920′s, of the libertarian leadership and organizations within the left. Much of it is already detailed in the biographies of communist activistss from 1900 through the 1930′s. It would be invaluable to go back through the CPUSA archives (and I do hope that they are put online) for many of the specifics.
Just a thought.
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com