tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post7467660447013949719..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The ghastly legacy of CommunismPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6485568272055656022016-09-05T04:42:18.687-05:002016-09-05T04:42:18.687-05:00It CAN work, if the circumstances are right. The c...It CAN work, if the circumstances are right. The circumstances would of course be something akin to the replicator and an energy source to cheap to meter. If everybody gets his basic needs without any costs, and only those that actually WANT to work have to communism would work.<br />But as said replicator and the energy source are pure scifi at this time, no more experiments please.MadMcAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189731235105279817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21868513030407663332016-09-04T23:08:55.458-05:002016-09-04T23:08:55.458-05:00Annonomous@3:33,
Communism and it's kissing c...Annonomous@3:33,<br /><br />Communism and it's kissing cousin Socialism will NEVER work for larger groups, as the basis of them violates HUMAN NATURE. The lie that underpins those political visions is that human nature is changeable. No, it cannot be changed, and therefore they will ALWAYS fail. EVERY country in the world that is based on socialism is failing. Simply a matter of time. Unfortunately, people, especially politicians, are not capable of learning from history, which is why we see the same thing repeated.<br /><br />Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-1367240155379146512016-09-04T18:14:42.506-05:002016-09-04T18:14:42.506-05:00It has been tried. Many times, and in this very co...It has been tried. Many times, and in this very country. Most famously with Oneida and Peoples Temple.<br /><br />What it hasn't ever done, is work out well for those involved.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12822511906907583597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23559310032960054992016-09-04T15:33:59.007-05:002016-09-04T15:33:59.007-05:00... somehow I find it ... annoying... that there h...... somehow I find it ... annoying... that there hasn't been a proper experiment on the communist economical model without the oppressive totalitarianism, even if there were a couple that were a bit less horrible than Stalin's USSR.<br /><br />(Not that I'd have any desire to take part in such an experiment.)<br /><br />Because even with all the evidence of communist economies having performed poorly compared to the western model, there just isn't a case available where the economical side would've been dominant over all this... though I suppose Tito's Yugoslavia might have come closest... <br /><br /><br />I mean, this little detail makes it harder to argue economics with the local Christian-Communist folks that are active in municipal politics in my home town. (They're the ultrapacifist kind too, "better to die than kill" and all. Too bad that this faction didn't survive much under the actual Communist regimes... and I'm convinced that their way still wouldn't work for productive industries, but since they can argue that it hasn't been tried yet... oh well.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59689345596836985782016-09-04T12:28:00.455-05:002016-09-04T12:28:00.455-05:00To expand on the point made by 0007, the New York ...To expand on the point made by 0007, the New York Times has never returned the Pulitzer Prize that Walter Duranty received for quoting Stalinist propaganda verbatim, "I have seen the future and it works", while simultaneously ignoring the mass starvation & deaths resulting from the purges implemented by Joseph Stalin. And I don't believe they have ever turned from their pro-communist outlook.<br /><br />Unfortunately, since the rest of the news media uses the NYT as its' authoritative source for the stories to cover, and the way to cover them, people never hear any news that the gatekeepers don't want heard. JournoList is another example of making sure the entire news media uses the same talking points, and the same voice.<br /><br />In this respect, the internet & bloggers have made a difference in getting the truth out, as they bypass the gatekeepers, *if people are willing to search the truth out.*<br />Steve Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00626594557764599205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81156100334158966782016-09-04T11:23:12.260-05:002016-09-04T11:23:12.260-05:00+1 on 0007. You'll never see any of this in th...+1 on 0007. You'll never see any of this in the MSM, it's only by doing research and reading that you will discover any of this!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30325140516996937632016-09-04T11:12:38.469-05:002016-09-04T11:12:38.469-05:00Reading The Gulag Archipelago was depressing. More...Reading The Gulag Archipelago was depressing. More so as I saw more and more parallels between it and modern America. But it was also very enlightening, and has helped me understand things that never made a lot of sense. Fear is a terrible master, and the left is about instilling fear and uncertainty everywhere, so people will turn to them and their promise of safety and security. Destroy men, make them weak and fearful, so they can be controlled. You might say "never me!" but when you job is on the line, when you can't make a payment and might lose the house, etc., it's easy to become fearful and say anything to keep the comfortable-enough, safe-enough lie going. When you see others give in, it's easy to think "why should *I* be the chump, the fall guy, when everyone else is a parasite?"<br /><br />Stay strong, and NEVER give the lie an inch, never confess or admit that anything you did or said was a problem in any way. They'll take the millimeter and stretch it a mile.Rolfhttp://www.thestarscameback.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59502902654044739332016-09-04T09:52:42.008-05:002016-09-04T09:52:42.008-05:00Of course Western public opinion has never come to...Of course Western public opinion has never come to terms with the crimes of Communism. Because they have never been told about them. Thanks to the subverted press, starting way back when, and the thousands of "useful idiots" who supported the various "revolutions for democratic rule" across those times(and still do) it's a wonder that we don't have a president brought up by commun...oops sorry about that.<br />Hell, when I was in junior high, I remember reading/hearing about what a wonderful thing it was going to be for the Cuban people now that castro had ousted the EEEEVIL BATISTA. <br />And in deference to our host I won't go into how well helping the communists in the overthrowing the evils of apartheid worked out. 0007noreply@blogger.com