Posted by John Lambert on August 03, 2003 at -1:39:15 from 24.84.34.215 user John.
In Reply to: Re: 'Marxist nonsense' posted by Peter Ceresole on August 01, 2003 at 22:39:18:
". . .to be a Marxist was a perfectly honourable thing to be. As it still is today, of course." Honourable thing to be a Marxist? Ask the Chinese who had to flee the Communists when the revolution occurred. Ask Cardinal Kung and the hundreds of Catholic priests and nuns who were tortured by those same "honourable" men. Ask the millions of Chinese and Ukranians who were slaughtered by the "honourable" Mao Tse-tung and Joseph Stalin in the name of Marxism. Consider also the record of other "honourable" men who have put Marxist theories into practice around the world over the last 80 years or so. Popular, maybe, but honourable? Since when do you call murder, torture and theft honourable? Surely no one in his right mind could possibly call the results of this most hideous of ideologies "honourable." To claim that Marxism is not responbible for the brutality of excesses of Communism is to ignore the direct connection between the two. While the orginal goal of Marx's economic theories may have been to improve the lot of the working man, Marxists have to accept some responsibility for the horror the application of those same thories have unleashed upon the world.