Submitted by John Spencer Yantiss, Feb 19, 2008 12:24
True communism, as defined in the dictionary, has NEVER existed in a large-form government, and only briefly in utopian experiments. What has been for over a century erroneously termed "communism" is nothing but totalitarinsm, despotism, by a different name. Indeed, when Lenin and Trotsky established what has ever since been known publically as a "communist state," what they really did was created a mirror image of the Czar's rule, albeit far more harsh and repressive. Following is a juxtaposition of the institutions of the two systems: Czar--Chairman Czar's extended family--Politburo Aristocracy--Communist Party Army--Army Serfs--Serfs (non-party masses) Castro's regime was and is even less different from absolute monarchy than the Soviet Union, now even extending by blood lines. The verbal and intellectual fraud, inexplicably perpetrated by proponents and opponents alike, only allows this form of totalitarianism to survive, being latched onto by ignorant and oppressed peoples. They are given the lies first told by Marx, and maintained since by a plethora of modern-day war lords.
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True communism, as defined in the dictionary, has NEVER existed in a large-form government, and only briefly in utopian experiments....