The Left is trying to rehabilitate Karl Marx. Let's remind them of the millions who died in his name

The Telegraph ^ | 11-1-13 | Tim Stanley

[ReformationFan]

I can't quite believe that I've just sat through ten minutes of BBC television in which British journalists Owen Jones and Zoe Williams have defended Karl Marx as the prophet of the End of Capitalism. Unbelievable because I had thought Marxism was over with the fall of the Berlin Wall – when we discovered that socialism was one part bloodshed, one part farce. But unbelievable also because you'd have to be a pretty lacking in moral sensitivity to defend a thinker whose work sent millions of people to an early grave.

I don't want to have to rehearse the numbers but, apparently, they're not being taught in schools anymore – so here goes. Sixty-five million were murdered in China – starved, hounded to suicide, shot as class traitors. Twenty million in the USSR, 2 million in North Korea, 1.7 million in Africa. The nightmare of Cambodia (2 million dead) is especially vivid. "Reactionaries" were sorted out from the base population on the grounds of being supporters of the old regime, having gone to school or just for wearing glasses. They were taken to the side of paddy fields and hacked to death by teenagers.

[353FMG]

Business will only come home if it is economical to do so.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

We’re already in trouble politically.

Bring back American jobs, and bring back conservatism.

But conservatism requires jobs. American jobs.

Right here, in America.

[clearcarbon]

By comparison, comrade obama has gone a long way to rehabilitate the image of President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon’s measure of integrity is clearly superior to the little dictator from Kenya.

[LyinLibs]