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originally posted by: Malak777
a reply to: CosmicAwakening
I will not watch videos like that as they totally distort history. They are far too simplistic.
To get a handle on history like this you would have to study many books and letters.
All I can suggest to you is that when you study history you must "walk a mile in their shoes". Their perspective is much different to yours. For these radical intellectuals it was a new ideology. Yes, socialites caught on to the craze. The intellectuals of Europe and later in many places believed they could form utopian states and answer many of the problems associated with power broking.
Marx and Engels were intellectuals funded by radicals who had money. Many politicians of that day found it fascinating, except for the elites. They were reacting to the excesses of classicism, kings and emperors and the failure of revolutionaries like Napoleon, et c.
You must not make assumptrions about such important political history based on these noxious ignorance generating videos. They'll make you think you know the answers, parrot fashion via their little memes, when you have in reality let somebody else's attitude and agenda misinform you and have you walking round with false and distorted information for your thought processes to be tangled up with.
If you really are interested then read the "Communist Manifesto", study its application in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea. Read all those who heavily criticised it as something politically monstrous. That will take much longer than watching a half an hour video and believing you know all about the most intimate aspects relating to the birth of this political ideology.
Even just read the "Communist Manifesto". It is an amazing work, quite a small book really. It is not boring at all. It really makes you think. Marx and Engels were very clever men.
I don't think Communism could ever work. It was doomed from the start. However, Marx sure helped create some consciousness relating to the worker and the politically forsaken citizens. He gave us all a huge boost that still helps to "remind" our current authorities of their duty, responsibility and accountability in our democracies. He was a friend to humans. It is a pity those manipulators twisted him so and made such monstrous states that never actually tried true communism. They pretended to. Communism stood no chance of working in a hybrid form crossed with totalitarianism and dictatorship. It was never about that.
originally posted by: JAY1980
Someone will be alone shortly to remind us how "true communism" has never been implemented correctly.
Or in other words "If I was a communist dictator" I'd get it right.
*smh*
originally posted by: Malak777
a reply to: CosmicAwakening
Communism stood no chance of working in a hybrid form crossed with totalitarianism and dictatorship. It was never about that.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: CosmicAwakening
Okay cool. What a relief. We have nothing to worry, since communism has failed globally.
Let's buy some more # to forget the fact we are enslaved by our debt.
originally posted by: okrian
originally posted by: JAY1980
Someone will be alone shortly to remind us how "true communism" has never been implemented correctly.
Or in other words "If I was a communist dictator" I'd get it right.
*smh*
Kinda like 'Well if we actually had a free market then capitalism would work'?' Gimme a break.
The corporatocracy doesn't need any more help. They already own everything, government included.
originally posted by: toysforadults
If the Rothechilds and rockefellers want communism why aren't we communist then?
If the Vatican and British royal family want communism why aren't we communist?
Yaawwwnnnn