Can someone explain something about Communism to me?
Oct 31, 2009
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Wealth Building
Viva la Vida asked:
I’m reading Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, and it seems to me that for all the effort he puts into explaining his philosophy of peace, cooperation, tolerance, understanding, and self-criticism, he himself was a dictator who ruled on the principles of war, religious persecution, and single-mindedness. A similar observation: If Nicolae Ceausescu was a Communist, then why did he spend so many billions of tax dollars on building himself a palace? What is up with dictators like Mugabe, Mao, Ceausescu, and Pol Pot who are suppposed to be Communists, but still insist on hoarding all their country’s wealth and brutally oppressing opposition?
I’m reading Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, and it seems to me that for all the effort he puts into explaining his philosophy of peace, cooperation, tolerance, understanding, and self-criticism, he himself was a dictator who ruled on the principles of war, religious persecution, and single-mindedness. A similar observation: If Nicolae Ceausescu was a Communist, then why did he spend so many billions of tax dollars on building himself a palace? What is up with dictators like Mugabe, Mao, Ceausescu, and Pol Pot who are suppposed to be Communists, but still insist on hoarding all their country’s wealth and brutally oppressing opposition?
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4 comments
god007md on November 1, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Because thats communisms reality and thats why on paper it seems “nice” and “cool” but it doesn’t work in practice.
bmovies60 on November 3, 2009 at 5:01 pm
“If Nicolae Ceausescu was a Communist, then why did he spend so many billions of tax dollars on building himself a palace? What is up with dictators like Mugabe, Mao, Ceausescu, and Pol Pot who are suppposed to be Communists, but still insist on hoarding all their country’s wealth and brutally oppressing opposition?”
Because that is communism. On paper it may promise alot, equality, prosperity, freedom, abundance, civility, etc., but when actually put into practice, it turns out to be anything but.
I’m reminded of the wife of one diplomat from the soviet union when the soviet union was still in existance. She came over here to the states for the first time, and after seeing all the stores filled with clothes, food, freedom, everything they could ever want, she (mistakenly) remarked: “Why, they have true communism over here!”
nirv on November 3, 2009 at 6:24 pm
As in arab countries Koran is used by dictators to hold the power, the same is true with communist ideology.
americanwwinmpls on November 5, 2009 at 11:20 pm
read up on the concept “dictatorship of the proletariat” to find your answer, ruthless resolve is required to smash the control of the bourgeoisie.
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