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"True Socialism," An Example
by Alex Birch
This guy, as Brett Stevens points out on Facebook, is a fool:
Let's set aside his "unique" blend of leftist ideologies for a moment. He separates Communism as an ideology envisioned by Marx from its consequences seen in Soviet Russia. The argument? He's not promoting the "bad" or "failed" sort of Communism, e.g. the sort of Communism history has documented so far in every place where it's been applied, but a "true" Marxist sort that probably only exists in books.
If you watch this video and place this argument in its context, you realize how foolish it really is. It's absurd to define an ideology as pure on paper and refusing to acknowledge the consequences it brings in real life. If "true" socialism is so hard to achieve, or if it most times ends up becoming a paranoid genocidal system of tyranny, that pretty much speaks for itself. Put simply, this man is a fool.
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Can...
.. you just admit the human race is fucked? Capitalist nations have been constantly at war, they have killed just as many for all the wrong reasons. See: South america.
Seriously from someone who says both the left and right are full of shit, you sound like an apologist for the right, lets just us just say that our problems require technical and scientific solutions not ideological ones.
The right is by and large militaristic, what are your thoughts about that?
What I don't buy
I don't buy the idea that communism under Stalin, Hoxha, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il etc. was "failed" or "untrue" in any way. It sure seems successful in doing just about everything Marx wrote should be done. If intellectuals don't think Stalin did enough, I don't even want to know what more they want.
I'm willing to entertain the idea that national socialism was somehow "impure" or "false", but that's as far as I'll go.