[Mudboy Slim]

"I think you are mixing two different things. Someone who believes in the communist ecomomic model or joins that political party in the US in 2004 and someone who supported the mass murders committed by the Soviets and Mao."

My my, you are the naive one, aren't you?! Communism ain't an "economic model", it's a form of Totalitarianism!! Does it even occur to you that folks have never voted fer Communism? No, communism has always been used as a justification for the violent overthrow of those in power, then mass-murdering everyone who stands up for individual rights and self-determination!! Perhaps you believe the nonsense that Communism is a benign "economic model" but history has proven your naivete!!

MUD

[Lion in Winter]

BUMP!!!

[breakem]

You are missing the point and wasted a lot of time, perhaps you can get a primer on the writings of Marx and Engels and contrast those with the way the Soviets carried out their "dream." I am not naive enough to think you don't know the difference, but just in case.

[Windcatcher]

"I think you are mixing two different things. Someone who believes in the communist ecomomic model or joins that political party in the US in 2004 and someone who supported the mass murders committed by the Soviets and Mao."

(sigh)

Yet another college idiot who has never lived in the real world, and who *darn sure* hasn't ever lived under Communism. Pick a Communist countty -- any one at all, take your pick -- I don't care which. Have fun trying to get the right to vote. Or trying to wage a protest against the powers-that-be. Just make sure that no one knows who you are or where you live -- for that matter make sure you're wearing several inches of Kevlar, 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week, because your Communist overlords *will* come for you. Or have you forgotten that poor soul in Tianmen in 1989? You know, the one carrying grocery bags and stood in front of the tank. Not only did they execute him, the billed his family for the bullet. Just *try* exercising the rights you have here in *any* Communist country. I can only assume that none of the 100 million people who have been murdered by Communist regimes all around the world aren't relatives of yours, or you'd already know everything I've said above -- that *not a single* Communist regime has refrained from murdering its citizens by the thousands. I know, you've got your fingers in your ears and you're not listening. Get back in your Volvo, drive over to Starbucks, and have another $5.00 latte with your leftist professor. I know you're not going to listen. Since you think Communism is such a good deal, how about getting a one-way ticket to Cuba? Then you just might learn something before they shoot you.