Communism: Why Are Westerners Such Fans?

I've always failed to understand how Libs can nitwittedly sputter the brainless pablum with which their Leftist professors exhorted their classrooms full of naive students: That communism does have its good ideas and curious how it hasn't succeeded. I usually hear this idiocy from a wealthy "Progressive" (as they are now calling themselves) who either hypocritically overlooks or might actually be oblivious to the fact that ... they're WEALTHY!!! And they became so because either they or their family members before them worked the capitalist system ... and profited from it.

I've heard such wistful musings about Communism from a colleague in a leadership position. Another fellow-teacher in a workshop mentioned that Jesus would have been a Communist. (That's always my favorite tack people take. But, these are usually the same folks that ridicule the "WWJD" movement. I guess you work with what's convenient at the moment while you hide anything that would undercut the point you're currently making ... or doing a little song-and-dance routine in front of your audience.)

I wish they'd do a bit of history reading to review some of the "finer points" of communism. Maybe this quick little video would suffice:



Oh, and that bewilderment over why Communism hasn't worked? If you remove that oh-so-enviable quality of efficiently slaughtering tens of millions of people in just a few measly years, you're overlooking one basic component about humans: If you remove motivation (i.e. everyone gets the same pay and stuff regardless of work), human beings aren't interested in performing more than at the "just-to-get-by" level. Hellllooooo!!!!

I love history and endeavor to continually learn more, especially because it wasn't until I was an adult that I learned of the genocidal campaigns of the Communists in Russia, Ukraine, China, etc. I didn't learn about this in history classes. It was by reading on my own.

It's sad to think that someone who gets a college education has only heard of the genocidal campaigns of the Nazis but nary a word about the horrors that communist regimes have inflicted -- tens of millions more than the Nazis and much more efficiently. I think that people who find they, too, were left poorly informed of Communism's past and, instead, were sold a glowing bill of goods from their professors, should look into filing malpractice suits against said professors and the universities who hired and paid them ... with our money.

My mantra: Education, not indoctrination!!!!!!