Which do you feel was a greater horror in human history?
- the holocaust65.7%
- communism34.3%
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I think most people will select the first, because out education system has failed to transmit the full scale of the horrors of the second
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I still don't think it's reasonable to describe "totalitarian dictatorships" as "communism".
If I take a bunch of people hostage at the local school and tell the police that I am holding a "school board meeting" that don't make it so.
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I'm under the impression this is the only real way communism can be done - with laws (force) that take away private ownership and a government that attempts to institute communist policies.
If you ask the communists, they will always say real communism has never been tried.
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Yes, and it's a largely incoherent idea.
But at the minimum, I have my doubts that the prominent examples of dictators living in palaces and enriching a small elite while peasants starve is really trying their best to live up to the ideal.
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Eventually, people resist having their property and resources taken away from them and then the state turns to violence to pull it off. Dekulakization.
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