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Originally Posted by angus58
I made the point that Communism is a secular "religion" - true it is a political ideology, but these days most religions are also political ideologies - take Islam for example: Religion and Politics inextricably entwined, making it a hell of a force to be reckoned with as the West is now discovering.
Marxist theory IS just that - theory. In an ideal world there would be no power hungry, corrupt, exploitative people, but the fact is that there are. The reason communism does not work is because Marx left out the human nature factor - that the strong will always exploit and abuse the weak. Russian communism was oppressive and restrictive, it was brutal to dissenters, it sought to crush any opposition or freedom of speech, thought or belief. It became a dictatorship, far worse than that which had existed prior to the Revolution.
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The amount parallels communism has with religion is scary. Don't forget the personality cults surrounding people like Stalin, Mao and Kim il-Sung (who even today after his death is worshipped like a god in North Korea). Plus the obligatory paranoia and distrust towards artists and intellectuals which governs every neanderthal philistine ideology.
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Originally Posted by angus58
Equality as a concept is illusory, people are NOT. and never will be, equal in terms of their inherent talents, skills or contribution to society; Communism seeks to repress difference and diversity, it's intention is to remove competition, inspiration and motivation, in short to crush the human spirit. The price for "equality" was and is way too high.
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I agree. Although I am pretty left of centre and think wealth should be distributed more fairly, the abolition of private property is a pipe dream and giving the state absolute control over the populace is a recipe for disaster. The communist experiment has already been attempted -in more than one country- and the results speak for themselves. Starvation on an unimaginable scale, millions dying in gulags, the destruction of people's history and heritage (another parallel with Christianity), humanity brought to the brink of nuclear war and today a secretive country on the Korean peninsula that literally resembles a real life Nineteen Eighty Four.