Communism is a disgusting and morally repugnant philosophy that advocates the imposition of a totalitarian government, genocide, and the destruction of the individual.
Imposition of a totalitarian system is a cornerstone of Communism; the major step involved in getting to the utopian bit is the imposition of the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’. They don’t even mince words, they call it a dictatorship. And it’s quite clear that this IS supposed to be a totalitarian government. Ironically, there’s no method given for getting rid of the totalitarian government; according to the manifesto, it will just fade away of it’s own accord and usher in an era where everything works fine. In actuality, people get fed up with the dictatorship long before it fades away, and switch to less totalitarian forms of government that involve capitalism and private property.
Communism also advocates large-scale genocide; part of the job that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (and the revolution leading up to it) is supposed to do is to kill all of the people opposed to Communism. Liquidate the bourgieouise, the intelligencia, and all of those other undesirables. The only real difference between Communism and Nazism on the subject of genocide is that Communism advocates slaughtering people based on class, while Nazism advocates slaughtering people based on race.
Under a communist system, the individual person has no rights. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” In other words, if your best ability is at engineering, but you hate engineering, you still have to stick it out as an engineer rather than take another career path, as that wouldn’t be giving ‘according to your ability’. I wonder how many of the supporters of Communism (who tend to be artist-types or university-professor-types) would like to find out that their ‘ability’ was determined to be shoveling shit on a farm or working as a garbageman. I also wonder how many vegitarian communists would like to find out that their best ability was determined to be working at a slaughterhouse.
And ‘to each according to his needs’ is much darker than the blind herd of Communist followers is willing to acknowledge; a person doesn’t NEED good tasting food, a nutritios oatmeal-like slop can do the job. You don’t NEED a private dwelling for your family, you can live in the communual barracks. You don’t NEED a nice-looking place to live, drab grey walls will keep the wind off of you. You don’t NEED to be cured of that painful back ache, you can just endure the pain and keep working for the good of the community. You don’t NEED a computer for posting to message boards, you can talk to people at your local committee meetings.
And since private property is theft under the Communist system, you can’t own things like a family album, a set of favorite clothes, or even a plate of food. If the community needs kindling for a fire, scratch those baby pictures goodbye. When your clothes are sent in to the communual washing facility, you can’t expect to get them back. Man, it sure is good not to be able to commit that ‘theft’ of private property? Imagine if you did something evil like owning your own computer, or a favorite book or something. That would be horrible!
And remember, these things are from the Communist Manifesto, not based on the actions of the various Communist governments (although anyone foolish enough not to learn from such obvious and available experience really should do the world a favor and never vote). Coming out in support of Communism is just as bad as coming out in support of Nazism, and it’s really sad that the sick supporters of Communism are not treated with the same contempt the sick supporters of Nazism are.
Without totalitarianism, you don’t have Communism. Read the Communist Manifesto so that you at least have some idea of the monstrosity you lend your support to. I till find it rather disgusting that you despise individual liberty enough to claim to support a Communistic system, but you’re stated viewpoint doesn’t have anything to do with Communism.
If you’re just looking at the end state of Communism and claiming that it would work if people were perfect, you’re just being silly. You might as well support enlightened despotism, as that way you only have to have one perfect person to make the sytem work.
I don’t see how you can say that; Lennin’s biggest accomplishment was slaughtering a lot of Russians, but if that’s your criteria for leadership, Uncle Joe takes the cake. The enforced famines, mass slaughters of undesirables, etc. were all started under Lennin, although continued with vigor by Stalin.
Nothing that existed prior to the industrial revolution can be any kind of Communism, as Communism can only be come from an industrialized, capitalistic state. Read the Communist Manifesto if you don’t believe me.
Kevin Allegood,
“At least one could get something through Trotsky’s skull.”
