02-20-2021, 02:07 AM
(02-20-2021, 12:48 AM)Einzige Wrote:(02-18-2021, 04:42 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-18-2021, 04:11 PM)Einzige Wrote: They really aren't far to the left of the United States. The political spectrum is a fantasy.
I see the notion of a century plus old system still being viable as more the fantasy. I could agree that the still alive modern systems are closer to each other than the notion that you have to change democratic cultures with violence. I could agree that violence might still be necessary if autocratic cultures do not listen to their people.
But for the US, the Marxist system is more obsolete than the political spectrum a fantasy. You measure the systems that are relevant.
What century plus old system?
The Bolshevik Revolution took place nearly 105 years ago. Stalin's worst horrors happened about 90 years ago.
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.