(07-11-2018, 01:24 PM)Hintergrund Wrote: Yeah. To hell with marxism, Marx was a yuge fraudster and nothing more.
For your information, Kinser has gone from being a Stalinist to a fanatical supporter of Donald Trump. True Believer (from the title by Eric Hoffer) types can make such drastic changes in ideology. It's a real shocker, but many fascists were renegade leftists. Commies found the fanatical enforcers (at low levels) of fascistic regimes useful as their own brutal enforcers. I read once of a recent neo-Nazi becoming a fanatical supporter of ISIS.
If you want to know who would have been the ideal enforcer for Stalinist commies in America ... look to a Klansman who undergoes a short session of brainwashing and replaces his recent fascist ideology with Marxist indoctrination.
I pay attention to the fundamentals of philosophy, to history, and morals... and I find Trump abominable.
...Marx said a few things that needed to be said, but he also made some huge mistakes in his prediction of the course of history due to no small extent his oversimplification of history.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.