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Me: Communism is a lie. It is sugarcoated totalitarianism. Communists do not really want the masses to have the power. They just want their own brand of aristocracy.
That explains why Marx, Lenin, Mao, Tito, and Che all spent their lives in poverty studying and improving the socialist idea
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Actually, yeah, it does.
They wanted
power. They were closet aristocrats. NONE of them were in favor of a direct vote on policy. They wanted to be part of an oligarchy that made all the decisions on
behalf of the masses. They may or may not have been sincere in their desire to see the will of the masses done, but their actions make it clear they did NOT really want to surrender their power. A slave is still a slave, no matter how benign the master may be.
In short, they were hypocrites.
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Schwarzwald, S-S is a former Communist, so he knows the ideology very well.
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I felt betrayed. It is one of the reasons I hate them so much.
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Good question comrade, allow me to explain. Socialism is the second stage needed before communism can be established; to get to the final stage (communism) is a process in which we gradually empower the workers and prepare them for whats to come instead of just giving them everything unprepared.
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Who gets to decide when it is time to move on to the next "stage"?
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In order to succeed we must look at the American economic situation instead of copying other nations, prepare workers while empowering them which means educating them, and we must have clear visions & goals of what we intend to do and how to do it when the time comes.
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Yeah, except that you dont really want free speech. That is part of the lie. By "education" they mean indoctrination. They want to limit what information the masses have access to.
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Keep the people educated not only in school but in the workplace and at home. Find ways to keep them interested in politics, economics, philosophy, military. With everyone educated this way the people would be able to see if they were being exploited or not and they could put the corrupt leaders out and replace them through election.
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And if they dont "see" this, then that
must mean they are being manipulated somehow...right?
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Him: The American government has never mass murdered it's people.
World War I, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq.
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Dying in a war doesnt = murder. Not sure where you got that idea.
The American government doesnt execute people who disagree with it. Communist nations do that however. Tienamen anyone?
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He is a young Communist don't expect it to make sense. He is stuck in his own self made metaphysical abstraction box. I find it hard to believe that people still believe in the idiocy of Karl Marx after all these years.
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He'll probably grow out of it on his own. But it needs to be explained to him WHY it is wrong. If someone had done that with my I would not have languished under the Communist illusion as long as I did.
He is young, and young people want immediate solutions to everything. Immediate solutions usually require extremism.