... and wouldn't it be funny if this year 2009 witnesses the rise of new communist states in Europe. It could literally happen overnight and without any or little bloodshed. It is possible.

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But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. The protection of these [unequal] faculties [of acquiring property] is the first object of Government. James Madison, Federalist No. 10

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

Democracy is a state, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against another. Lenin, State and Revolution

History repeating itself, it could happen. Happening overnight, I highly doubt it though.

The rise of the Soviet Union was just the opposite. It took years and and it was very bloody. I think if any Communist regime were to gain power in a Democratic government that would be bloody as well.

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