>For much of the one hundred years just past, the
>forces of freedom and democracy found themselves at
>war with two books, Das Kapital, by Karl Marx which,
>of course, gave rise to communism. Mein Kampf, by
>Adolph Hitler which gave rise to Nazism. Nazism and
>communism, how is it that these two totalitarian
>ideologies gained such a hold on tens of millions of
>people. If you had to decide the matter as a
>historical question, which one, Nazism or communism,
>did more damage to the fabric of our civilization?
>that the great bulk of the population
>is both too sane and too stupid to follow the
>arguments.
>Went to Russia, saw Soviet Russia and swallowed every lie
>they could.
>The lunacy of them is more interesting than their just
>being-they're being-they're being nasty in a way but
>they're being stupid is even more interesting. That
>the deans of Western Social Science. After all, the
>webs and people should just be taken in by paper, by
>pachunkin(?) paperwork. It's extraordinary.
>One of the most vexing questions of
>the twentieth century, how much were Nazism and
>communism alike?
Wow.
I can't believe this.
And to think I've been hoping for, maybe, some kind of peaceful transition to something socialist.
I honestly, seriously think now it's going to be bullets, with this sort of idiocy masquerading as "intelligentsia". No other way around it.
Thank you for depressing my day further, Michael. >{/>
Todd
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