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2017-11-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Why won't the nightmare dream of Communism die?

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Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-10 12:31|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is 'idealistic'?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-10 12:33|| 2017-11-10 12:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Everyone likes the idea of living at everyone else's expense.

Marxism is the narcissism in political form.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-11-10 12:45|| 2017-11-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 That's because espousing it's ideas doesn't carry an automatic summary execution as a prize yet.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-11-10 13:02|| 2017-11-10 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Bad ideas never go away. There is a constant stream of young people who don't know any better.

Posted by Iblis 2017-11-10 13:13|| 2017-11-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 It won't die, because class warfare still works.

Posted by Raj 2017-11-10 13:46|| 2017-11-10 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Communism is, kinda, suited to bands of hunter gatherers, and we've been that a very long time.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-10 15:13|| 2017-11-10 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Communism survives because some folks want absolute power and others want to be swaddled and cared for and protected from all risk.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-11-10 22:56|| 2017-11-10 22:56|| Front Page Top

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