adhay
October 10, 2010, 7:55pm
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Fuck you, you little indecipherable turd whom I have never noticed (or don’t remember) until this thread! I haven’t a fucking clue why you are pitting me, but I am a first class, full bore asshole and I don’t deserve to have my own personal pitting shared with Stranger On A Train. Mine! Mine! Mine!
So, Adhay, is this Pit thread a dissertation defense from Glenn Beck University? Or are you a sufferer of cranius rectumitis? You certainly have your head shoved far up your ass. I hear you once tried to blow your brains out but couldn’t find any Kleenex.
Whatever?
Let me remind you of your supporting posts in my Lenin/Imperialism OP.
One of several.
I doubt that a significant number of such people exist. The problem is, mass murder and tyranny tend to poison the well just a little bit. Most people don’t want to read it, because it’s Lenin. Even a cookbook by Lenin would likely get a hostile reception, much less a political piece.
So, no it hasn’t “taught us something useful”, because most people won’t read it and would consider any claims made to be highly suspect due to the source. In fact, picking something written by Lenin to push a political position is counterproductive as it only hands ammunition to the people who like to equate anything even slightly left wing with Communism.
And I am surprised that I apparently actually had to explain all this.
Well, I’m not polemicizing in this instance. Left wing and communism are not the same thing in virtually all instances. Liberalism is considered by communists and socialists to be a bigger enemy than capitalism for good reason: it is an workable alternative to both. Anyone interested in the theory behind politics should at some point read Lenin’s Imperialism. Just as they should also read anything written by Machiavelli. Lenin actually committed a lot of evil. Machiavelli committed little to no evil, but was a teacher of evil, but nonetheless understanding him is essential. Not so coincidentally, both Hitler’s and Stalin’s favorite book was The Prince.
As for the right wing propagandists who want to conflate have read Lenin (or Marx) and seeing they had a valid point here and there to be the same as agreeing, that is just spreading fear and ignorance. If we want to avoid the mistakes of the USSR, we do need to study the USSR and the ideas behind it. That road to hell was paved with good intentions.
We live in the world as it is, with the history it has, not the world we fantasize about with the fairy tales about history taught to school children. (Also a part of the world we live in.)
So, why do you forsake me now?
Can’t stand comedy?
ETA With regard to SOAT , at the time he recognized that the International Corporate Kleptocracy (IGC), a composite of KGB, CIA, GM and Goldman Sachs has won globally.
It’s time we look elsewhere than IGC for answers. Disagree?
This is the first reply to the answer to the reply to your alleged pit.
Preferably a long nap at that.
Frank
October 10, 2010, 8:31pm
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Is it just me, or is this the first coherent post in the thread?
Squink
October 10, 2010, 9:27pm
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Yet Another Winsome Nocturne?
SteveG1
October 10, 2010, 9:41pm
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Generally I have no fucking idea what he’s jabbering about.
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SteveG1
October 10, 2010, 9:46pm
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That made more sense than some of that other stuff
This is my reply to all the other replies in this thread which are replying to the OP’s reply.
To the question of Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Marx, and the pipsqueaks Machiavelli and Beck, I reply.
Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, General Tojo, and the pipsqueaks Buddha and Reverend Moon.
Let’s keep it multicultural folks!
