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So under communism no one is going to cheat on their wife or beat their kids or steal something from someone else EVER AGAIN?
Originally posted by LeoPardus70
reply to post by consciencious observer
Talking about evil? That's like talking about the vast majority of the human race. Humans feed on evil. I've seen a man get shot in the head for a buck fifty. That's what he had in his pocket. This was in California. Now I'm in a country where 70% of the people are below the age of 30. Why do you think that is? It's a population of 83 million people.
I hate history. Books of lies to make the bankers actions seem less criminal and monstrous.
In school I keep hearing about what a monster Hitler was but I never heard anything about Stalin. Why? Stalin killed 4x more people than Hitler.
Money.... If you have it, you can tell your story.
That's why nobody in the States knows about the deaths in Vietnam after the war. The US starved most of the country to death. North and South.
Yeah, Evil sh-t man.
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
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So under communism no one is going to cheat on their wife or beat their kids or steal something from someone else EVER AGAIN?
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
reply to post by consciencious observer
There are more good people than bad people but it only takes a small percentage of bad to create havoc, especially in a world where you have taken away everyones defenses.
I cant really say that I believe that there are evil people. There are just people willing to go to extremes that we would not to achieve their goals.
[edit on 5-4-2009 by justsomeboreddude]
Originally posted by SGTChas
reply to post by DarkSecret
I have some small knowledge of the beginnings of the first Communist State because my Great Uncle North Winship was U.S. Consul from 1914 through 1917 to Russia. When on October 27, 1917 the city of Petrograd fell to the Bolsheviks, Uncle Winship was snuck out of the city in the trunk of a Mercedes. I have some of his pictures and a copy of my Uncle’s hand written diary of the events before and after. Indeed, his picture still hangs in the visa application room at the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg (Petrograd).
To Count 66 & consciencious observer
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"What this means is that PURE COMMUNISM has been tried and worked as recorded in Acts of the Apostles. This system could never work when obedience to the Lord is removed and replaced with obedience to the state. Furthermore, ALL that made God’s communism work was based on God’s kind of unconditional love, something that a man made system will never inspire. "
[edit on 4/5/2009 by SGTChas]
Originally posted by SGTChas
reply to post by consciencious observer
I answerd this already: "This system could never work when obedience to the Lord is removed and replaced with obedience to the state. Furthermore, ALL that made God’s communism work was based on God’s kind of unconditional love, something that a man made system will never inspire."
Originally posted by snidr
reply to post by SGTChas
I was born in DDR, hope that answer you question.
I have seen capitalism destroying well formed firms all over here. It also has destroyed the society, which IMO was a very good one. (except those people in the STASI, of course)
It was in the 80-90th when the real communism idea was in most heads. Kids were kinda drilled to this believes and i must say it was a very good childhood. For me it was a pleasure to be one of those kids. Proud of my country i was born in and i still am to have lived there. The society and family life was great. Many people were happy with what they had. (Not all of course) Because there are more valuable things like friendship and family.
Later when the wall was down most suffer from less jobs available and less money. Sure there is a lot stuff to spend money on. But without money? ...
DDR was just a little country alongside of hungry money sucker countries around us. Most of the technical stuff we use today was patented in DDR first and was sold to western countries. I have a lot of examples but don't name them here.
The only problem was that people in the DDR were not able to go past the boarders and had not the stuff western countries had. But that's not a problem of communism. That's a problem communism alongside with capitalism money and resource sucker countries.
To be able to adopt a communism country alongside capitalism countries involve hard lines to build around that country. Without them it can't work at all. Communism is a ideology that can't co-exist with capitalism selfish-ness.
I don't wanna say that DDR was communism, it was a socialism country. But what we have learned from marx? Socialism is a transitional period from capitalism (or other forms of economic systems) to socialism to communism.
greetz