This is sad but true. As someone in their 20s I can definitely say we are taught almost nothing about the ussr or communism. When learning the history of the 20th century we usually focus on wwII and the rise of fascism for the first half. For the second half of the 20th cent. we are taught about how “horrible” America was for fighting in Vietnam. High school history tends to skip to current politics after the fall of Saigon.
None of the Communists I’ve met commited crimes against humanity so I’m not sure why you posted that in response to my post nor did they support those actions. Are you saying that they weren’t well intentioned?
The communist party did a great job feeding people.
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There is another extreme where people don’t believe in welfare, healthcare safety nets and equal rights for the poor. This has seen just as much death and inhumanity throughout history.
I don’t care how well intentioned a belief is. All sorts of bad things have been done in the name of good intentions. Every single time the communist party came to power the same stuff happened. ps, I have met plenty of racists who think they are right and I disagree with them, even though they themselves never committed any actual crime.
Many western countries have this already and are not communist. Communism did nothing to end poverty and death. I think there is a reason why their own people overthrew them.
This!
You do have a point. There is a lot of anger. There are good people out there though, even the angry ones are just misguided. I still say they have the right intention, they just don’t have any way to cope with injustice except anger. Usually people grow out of it at some point.
Communism is not just an economic system,it is a materialistic ideology and form of government that denies natural rights,which are given by God.
No, Communism is an economic system, period.
Yeah, and those extremes usually occurred under dictatorships and monarchies. It seems to mean that things like welfare, healthcare, etc, are more impacted by what political system a country has then by what economic system it has.
Historically, all communists who ever achieved power (without exception), committed horrible crimes against humanity. The pattern was repeated over and over again:
I’m not really disagreeing. My point is that individual communists have the right intentions but are misguided (in my opinion). They want to help the poor just like we do but disagree on how to do it. We do it one person at a time, they try to solve it all at once by changing the society. Thomas Merton (an ex-communist sympatizer) made the observation that the problem with the Communism is that it is rooted in hate for the rich where as Christianity is rooted in love for the poor. I agree that communism is an error and has a terrible track record.
You are correct there is certainly hatred for the rich, but it would be more accurate to just say that communism is based on hatred. There is no need for the limiting qualifier.
Communism was certainly the scourge of the 20th century. It’s methods were torture, terror, mass starvation, mass deportations, massacres, elimination of all opposition. 25 million killed in Russia by Bolsheviks and Stalin. 65 million killed in China under Mao, two million in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, millions more in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America. Forced relocation of populations by Ho Chi Minh, resulting in poverty and starvation.
