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DemocratSinceBirth

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56. Totalitarianism is evil. Marxism isn't.

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Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:31 PM

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Do you yearn for the good old days when hating NAZIS was a bipartisan affair? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 OP

What about the good old days when hating Communists was a bipartisan affair? n/t Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #1

NAZIS are infinitely more loathsome. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #2

More loathsome than Putin? LisaM Aug 2017 #5

I don't follow you. Putin isn't a communist. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #7

He's ex-KGB. LisaM Aug 2017 #21

Agreed. He's still not a communist. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #27

He's a capitalist JonLP24 Aug 2017 #30

That's not communist, he's big grifting asshole like Benedict Donald uponit7771 Aug 2017 #35

Putin is an authoritarian. He certainly isn't a Marxist. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #8

Y'all making this way too complicated, like trump, putin is simply a criminal. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #52

Putin is not a communist. Caliman73 Aug 2017 #19

The problem isn't Communism it is totalitarianism. Caliman73 Aug 2017 #4

Compare the end goal of Marx to the end goal of Hitler. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #10

Again. I am limited and may be wrong about communism... Caliman73 Aug 2017 #14

For all its flaws Marxism envisioned a humanistic future. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #17

You're either saying Nazis aren't that bad or Communists are as bad as Nazis. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #9

Stalin likely killed more people than Hitler. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #11

No, communism is not evil. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #16

Mendacity. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #20

Is Marxism an evil ideology? DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #24

And the Communists killed and enslaved more people in the 20th Century than the Nazis did. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #36

Hitler was a genocidal leader who all but eliminated European Jewry DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #41

And then those inspired by Marx, like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims... Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #44

Marxism is not an inherently evil ideology. Nazism is. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #46

It doesn't get more true when you repeat the Big Lie. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #48

Did we or did we not ally ourselves with the Soviet Union to fight Hitler ? DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #50

We made a deal with the devil (after the two devils, Hitler and Stalin, had a deal fell come apart). Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #53

Totalitarianism is evil. Marxism isn't. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #56

It's entirely defendable. I am a Democrat and a Marxist. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #25

Hello syringis Aug 2017 #32

I agree it would take a long time. I still thing it's an essential goal. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #33

The problem with Communism is it relies on the same humans that are exploiting & trafficking labor JonLP24 Aug 2017 #31

Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin were butchers. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #18

Instead of finding yet another thing to quibble at among ourselves,... Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #12

My point is your claim that communists are the bad guys is false. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #15

Khrushchev and Gorbachev tried to liberalize and reform the Soviet Union. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #22

Communism has never been a problem... Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #23

What tenet of communism demands extermination camps? Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #29

Ask Stalin and the millions he butchered. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #37

I've read the Gulag Archipelago multiple times. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #38

And yet seem to have learned nothing. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #39

Have you stopped to consider that I know what I'm talking about? Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #40

You don't give the impression that you know what you are talking about... Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #42

You realize there are thousands of democratic socialists in the Democratic party, right? Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #43

Are you now suggesting that democratic socialists are crypto-communists and Marxists? Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #45

Secret? I'm sure the vast majority of democratic socialists are self-avowed Marxists. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #47

Thanks for making that plain. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #49

You can dispense with the melodrama. We don't eat babies. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #51

I beg to differ. Expecting Rain Aug 2017 #55

Name for me the crucial tenets of Marxism. Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #57

I'm far from a Marxist but to conflate Marxism with Nazism is idiocy. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #54

As predicted, somebody told me I was wrong. Which sort of means I was right, doesn't it. n/t Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #34

The problem is in defining who the true "bad guys" are. Caliman73 Aug 2017 #28

Bingfuckinggo Binkie. LSFL Aug 2017 #58

What precisely is your issue with communism? Gravitycollapse Aug 2017 #59

Give me back the cold war era of Nazis And Russia. democratisphere Aug 2017 #3

Nazi groups have been around forever. B2G Aug 2017 #6

Republicans painted themselves into a corner on that. Caliman73 Aug 2017 #13

+1 leftstreet Aug 2017 #26