03-04-2018, 10:44 PM
OK, John -- I confess. I have a gallery of my heroes Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, and Obama. When expected to salute the American flag I clench my fist and shout "Workers of the world, hnite!". My favorite piece of music begins "Arise, ye pris'ners of starvation, arise, ye wretched of the world!" I have hammer-and-sickle wallpaper. I see Donald trump as the last depraved gasp of a capitalist order that has doomed and damned itself. I look forward to being the commandant of an American Gulag in which I get to torture former plutocrats into confessing where they put their hidden troves of loot. For now I want to disarm American patriots so that they cannot shoot back at my Cheka-like buddies.
Reality: Donald Trump is not a conservative; he is nearly a fascist. The only viable ideology is humanism, and any ideology that dehumanizes people (which includes practically every manifestation of Communism) cannot justify its results. Note also that capitalism without human values is itself bankrupt even if it succeeds in creating incredible wealth.
Reality: Donald Trump is not a conservative; he is nearly a fascist. The only viable ideology is humanism, and any ideology that dehumanizes people (which includes practically every manifestation of Communism) cannot justify its results. Note also that capitalism without human values is itself bankrupt even if it succeeds in creating incredible wealth.
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.
