The evil philosophies of
fascism
and communism
were the two great 20th century mass killers.
Of these, communism was the greatest killer.
100 million men, women and children
have been murdered by socialism so far,
and the killing continues today,
notably in
North Korea.
In terms of body count, socialism is by far
the most evil religion,
the most evil ideology of any sort,
of all time.
Behind the Iron Curtain, communists stamped out freethought
as efficiently as in any authoritarian religious state.
Communists are not sceptics, and are atheists only superficially.
Marx and Lenin founded an irrational religion every bit as dogmatic, credulous,
and opposed to freethought
as any of the older religions they criticised.
The lesson of the 20th century - Revolution may enslave the people
Perhaps the central lesson of the 20th century is this:
It is not enough to complain about the existing order.
Your solution must be better, not worse.
It is not enough to have a revolution against the Tsar.
Your revolution must create a society that is more free
than society under the Tsar, not less free.
Clearly, though the Tsar was a dictator,
Lenin
made Russia less free, not more.
It is not enough to attack the
Weimar Republic.
The solution must be better, not worse.
Disillusioned with Weimar, the Germans turned to Hitler,
who delivered total war, humiliating defeat, mass destruction,
7 million German dead,
partition and occupation of half the country by Russia for decades,
the permanent loss of territory,
ethnic cleansing of millions of Germans,
the rape of millions more,
and a genocidal shame that will hang over Germany for a thousand years.
It is not enough to throw off western imperialism in Africa.
Your independence must lead to a society that is more free and prosperous, not less,
than society under imperialism.
Clearly, though imperialism could be
brutally exploitative and racist,
much of Africa
is worse off since independence, not better.
Edmund Burke
was the prophetic voice on this issue
back in the 18th century,
supporting the American revolution (the one that worked,
that led to a better society),
and opposing the French revolution
(which led to bloodbath and dictatorship).
If only every revolutionary considered Burke's point,
even for 5 minutes.
Because today the world is still full of revolutions that, if they succeed,
will enslave people, not free them.
From western anarchists
trying to destroy middle-class life,
to the Palestinian resistance
fighting to enslave the Palestinian people
under theocracy and dictatorship,
all will cause more oppression and poverty, not less.
marx2mao.org has a huge
library
of communist "thought"
- a parallel world;
a fascinating glimpse into the minds of a strange, ultra-violent,
pre-rational
mystery cult;
an insane asylum.
Marginalizing Conservative Ideas
on campus,
by David Horowitz.
How students read works that have been completely disproved by history,
and are kept away from works that have been
triumphantly vindicated by history.
Democracy and capitalism bring peace, life and prosperity.
A utopian state and socialism bring war, genocide, death,
poverty and famine.
It's not an opinion.
It's statistical fact.
It's so obvious, yet we need to say it again.
People fight to leave communist states.
They never fight to get into them.
Why is this?
People fight to get into democracies
like America, Australia and Western Europe.
Cubans die trying to get into America.
East Germans died trying to get into West Germany.
Why not the other way?
As an
atheist,
I am completely on the side of the religious in their war on communism.
Communism is an ultra-violent, irrational, barbarous
state religion.
No evidence supports its major claims.
Indeed, they have all been proved wrong
by history.
Because no evidence supports
their faith,
the communist state attacks
freedom of speech
and freedom of religion.
Apart from their brutality, torture and murder,
it is the cowardice that is so striking.
The communists know
that their own stupid, ignorant ideas could not survive
if people were free to discuss them.
The Soviets destroyed forever most of Russia's
ancient religious heritage.
Clergy and laity butchered for their beliefs.
Icons and churches all destroyed
by the violent irrational religion of Marxism.
The Bible was banned by the communist bullies and cowards,
but it can now be freely read
here.
The Nazi holocaust is taken seriously and remembered.
But the communist holocausts and democides are barely taught in school,
ignored by Hollywood, and generally forgotten and trivialised
in the popular culture.
In the worst case, people in the West still admire
or jokingly name things after
Lenin, Trotsky, Mao and other communist butchers.
The jokingly named
Cafe Mao in Dublin
is one of the worst examples of this modern leftist blindness.
Somehow this genocidal killer is amusing to these people.
See larger.
Image from here.
See terms of use.
See Tony Allwright's campaign
against Cafe Mao.
A bit "bolshie",
or "bolshy",
is like a term of amusement,
rather than designating a mass killer of women and children.
Like "young turk",
its casual use reflects how we ignore and trivialise
non-Nazi holocausts.
stalinism.com
by John Band
- "dekulakise the nation and eliminate the bourgeoisie".
To some modern leftists, the Soviet democide is just a big, hilarious joke.
But the "kulaks" and the "bourgeoisie" -
millions of innocent men, women and
children -
were torn screaming from their homes,
exterminated, shot, gassed, put in camps and starved to death.
And it's all just a big joke to these people.
But how could you make such a joke?
How could you joke
about Stalin's killing of 40 million innocent men, women and children?
Do you not know much about it?
Or do you not care?
Is similar joking about the Holocaust
acceptable?
Lenin's Tomb
- An anonymous SWP nut
(since exposed as Richard Seymour)
names his blog after a democidal killer in order to be
provocative:
"Lenin is one of the last truly subversive signifiers. The Wall Street Journal can appreciate Marx,
but Lenin still evokes a shiver or two. Therein lies the attraction."
Why not "Eichmann's Tomb"?
Seymour
says that the obviously true statement that
"anyone who supports the Mahdi Army and won't kill them is an enemy of Iraq"
is "a lie".
What a strange world he lives in.
The song
No More Heroes
(1977),
by The Stranglers,
describes Trotsky as a hero.
Apparently this is
not a joke.
Note the song does not refer to Lenin
(this is a mis-heard reference to
Lenny Bruce).
Article on Hoxha
by Cali Ruchala
- "Somewhere on the outskirts, between Stalinville and Mao Valley,
there is a special place in hell
reserved for Enver Hoxha."
"I think our enemies are committing a monumental strategic error.
In fact the present moment favors us far more than it does them. We are
almost 99 percent sure that we can strike a mortal blow against them
and consolidate the central position that we are going to need
to occupy for several decades to come.
With the help of all those starving people who are starting to
eat each other, who are dying by the millions, and whose
bodies litter the roadside all over the country, it is now and
only now that we can - and therefore must - confiscate all
church property with all the ruthless energy we can still
muster. This is precisely the moment the masses will support us
most fervently, and rise up against the
reactionary machinations of the petit-bourgeois
and Black Hundred religious
conspirators.
...
All
evidence suggests that we could not do this at any other moment, because
our only hope is the despair engendered in the masses by the famine"
- Lenin
knows about the
famine of 1921-2,
and laughs about it.
He himself
is not starving by the side of the road,
so he doesn't give a shit.
Lenin sums up the world of communism.
He is utterly indifferent to the
millions dying in agony because of his own government.
He has no interest whatsoever in helping them.
All he sees is an opportunity to attack enemies
(in this case the church).
"Among religions, Bolshevism is to be reckoned with
Muhammadanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity
and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of
contemplation. Muhammadanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual,
concerned to win the empire of this world."
"There has been a rumour in recent years to the effect that I have become
less opposed to religious orthodoxy than I formerly was. This rumour is
totally without foundation. I think all the great religions of the world -
Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and
Communism - both untrue and harmful."
- Bertrand Russell
on communism as religion.
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments.
Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."
- The leftist terrorist
Bill Ayers
sums up
in 1969
(also here
and here)
what communist revolution is:
The mindless destruction - often by the children of wealth and privilege - of
everything that generations of tolerant and hard-working people have
painstakingly built up.
(1977)
by David Bowie
is about the Berlin Wall.
Nepal goes backward:
Maoist leader becomes Prime Minister, 2008.
Since 1995.
