Why communism is evil

DeSantis said students need to be taught that communist and totalitarian governments are evil. Why would somebody leave a place like Vietnam? Why would people leave these countries and risk their life to be able to come here?

DeSantis said. Currently, that system is capitalism. Communism is the critique and the antidote to capitalism, with all its problems, including those of social and cultural division. A liberal believes that capitalism can be humanized. A socialist is skeptical about this. In other words, liberals think a few bad apples spoil the supply.

A communist thinks that the crate itself is rotten. A communist is a socialist, but a socialist is not necessarily a communist. A communist believes that socialism is a historical phase that precedes communism and follows capitalism. Socialism is that system where the state is the full or partial owner of all property. Communism is the collective ownership of all property.

A communist wants more. A communist seeks the abolition of property, whether held by the state or private firms and citizens; they want all of us to own everything equally and become our own dictators. A communist seeks conditions to end the state entirely and have all human society collectively managed. To make his argument that the mode of production is the starting point for many of our ideas and life experiences, Marx goes back in time. That is to say, the labor of many has ensured the comfort of a few ever since the Neolithic Revolution.

This is our struggle. In a slave economy, most of us are slaves. In a feudal economy, most of us are serfs. In a capitalist economy, we become the servants of a small class of capitalists. Under capitalism today, we give a lot of our surplus to our bosses. The objective therefore, is to retrieve memory, to structure our understanding of these experiments, and to make sense of their methods and goals. The above is a summary of his presentation, edited by Sabina Crisen.

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Comparing Two Evils: Communism vs. Nazism There is no spectacular revelation in The Black Book: what has emerged from the secret archives of the former Soviet bloc countries confirms the long-held view that communists engaged in revolutionary civil war to accomplish the total transformation of the economy, society, and culture.

The key point, however, is the legitimacy of the comparison, and here I agree with the Polish-French historian, Krzystof Pomian's approach: "It is undeniable that mass crimes did take place, as well as crimes against humanity, and this is the merit of the team that put together The Black Book: to have brought the debate regarding 20th century communism into public discussion; in this respect, as a whole, beyond the reservations that one can hold concerning one page or another, it has played a remarkable role.

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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.