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In reply to the discussion: Libertarians and Communists: Two Sides of the Same Douchenozzle [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)30. As a matter of fact you didn't. To wit:
The closer they got to getting 100% of what they demanded without realizing utopia, and the smaller the share of power allowed for alternative opinions, the more intensely the blame for all failures had to be focused on that diminishing opposition in order to Keep The Faith.
In the 20th century, the above described Communism - the corruption of an originally benevolent, compassion-driven movement into a petulant cesspool of bigotry, unreason, and oppression.
If you believe the first excerpt, you've ignored 83% of 20th century history because a) at no point did self-described communist governments or movements approach anything near a majority, much less get near 100%, and b) these governments merely attempted socialism, not communism, and were from 1917 onward under continuous threats and multiple, actual armed interventions which turned the policies from rudimentary socialism into state survival.
To continue your second excerpt:
But in the late 20th and into the 21st, it describes Libertarianism - the corruption of an originally responsible, rational principle akin to the Hippocratic Oath applied to governance, into an excuse for malignant sociopaths with money to dismantle civilization and replace it with depraved feudal tyranny. In the 20th century, the world was threatened by the Politburo.
If you consider libertarianism, even as a concept, to be "an originally benevolent, compassion-driven movement", you either do not understand what it is or, consider what is actually is to be benevolent. It isn't. It is an elevation of the self which is the antithes if what communism is.
I truly hope you did not hand anything remotely like this post into your political science class.
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Libertarians and Communists: Two Sides of the Same Douchenozzle [View all]
True Blue Door
Aug 2014
OP
So your solution is they should retire in poverty to make a political statement. (nt)
jeff47
Aug 2014
#35
Thanks for cutting through the rhetoric to get to the results. Bravo. May I share this?
freshwest
Aug 2014
#7
Libertarianism has as much to do with Communism as this post does with political reality.
rug
Aug 2014
#14
By your words, "the Perfect System and its acolytes" you've established you're simply
rug
Aug 2014
#50
Then by that logic, capitalism is what capitalists do and nothing more......
socialist_n_TN
Aug 2014
#38
I have to agree, the OP needs to read more real history and less propaganda brochures. nt.
Rex
Aug 2014
#59
Is this your original writing, because it is awesome. Expletives at end paragraph notwithstanding
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#20
The corruption of large-C Communism had nothing to do with utopianism or radicalism.
Ken Burch
Aug 2014
#43
Rec-ing for one of the best discussions/conversations I have read here in quite some time.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#57
Interestingly I was just on a thread about the dangers of all forms of religious fundamentalism...
LeftishBrit
Aug 2014
#58