Atlas Shrugged

Originally posted by Dace Ace
You mean the Reichstag fire. It was an arson job, no explosives. And this small group of communist, in there poorly planned short-sighted action,
As far as the Spanish Civil War, I do believe that the Republicans (which gives me a chuckle) didn't do so well. The goal of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) was to use a veil of legitimate democratic inst ...[text shortened]... ublic" with total leftist domination.


Are you seeing a glimmer of communism in Obama?

At least they tried.
And what were the capitalist pigs doing at the time? Dealing with the fascists.

Proud?

Originally posted by FMF
I take it you are aware of what Putin's power base is now? So why the surprise? As for the KGB, it had almost nothing at all to do with "socialism". It was surely nothing more than an agency enforcing the wishes of the authoritarian Stalinist bureaucracy.

Stalin's KGB was virtually the same as Ivan the Awesome's secret police of about 800 years or so earlier. Uncle Joe and Ivan didn't spoil a pair, and all for geopolitical reasons.

Originally posted by shavixmir
There have been attempts to create "communist states". But that's about it.

Communism is sort of a half-way house between capitalism and anarchy (Statelessness... sort of like laissez faire capitalism, one could say).

Dialectics argues that capitalism will become communism on its own accord.

Most communists would not agree that the Soviet Union ...[text shortened]... was communist. Indeed, the USSR actively hunted down communists and sent them to the Goulag.

Is that why Trotsky had the runs?