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Authored by: Wol on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
You've missed the point. If you have a dictator, then it's not communism.
American Society is at its heart profoundly communist. Think barn raisings ...
It's just that, thanks to people like McCarthy and his "Reds under the
bed", "communist" in America has become a pejorative epithet. And
it doesn't mean what Americans think it means.
Going the other way :-) think about the word "fascist". To us now it
means Mussolini and the Italian Way of the 30s. Yet from my European viewpoint,
the definition - "rule by corporation" - seems a pretty good fit for
the America of today. I'm sure you're horrified by the comparison. But take the
word IN CONTEXT. Look at what it meant then. And look at what you are today -
with your military/industrial complex.
I'd love to live in a communist society. But there's no way I would call the
Eastern Europe of the last half of last century a communist society. It was a
Russian Imperial Empire.
Communism is actually probably a very good description of Israel in the 50s and
60s (or large parts of it, at least).
Cheers,
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