There are many fellow travellers who forget about the poison of socialism when confronted by the greed of capitalism. Unfortunately human nature being what it is there are no political systems capable of stemming the tide of greed, hubris, selfishness and plain psychopathic behaviour that is the companion of so much human behaviour. But some systems have been more successful in constraining and directing such behaviours in creative and positive ways and have proved it in the development of civilisations that have grown to provide the greatest periods of peace coupled to the greatest developments of security, comfort and well-being to the greatest number of people.
Why then are we seemingly hell-bent on returning our civilisation to the systems that reward behaviours such as these?:
More to the point, with Lenin, Trotsky was the principal architect of a system, communist repression, which replicated itself all over the globe. As such, he was culpable for untold calamities, including the murder and enslavement of millions. Largely sanitised by the Left, who contrast him with the diabolical Stalin, Trotsky was only the “the good communist” in the way that Albert Speer was “the good Nazi”; indeed the term “good communist” is as oxymoronic as its Nazi counterpart. Consider the appalling scale of Trotsky’s bloody legacy. Thanks to Stephane Courtois’ chapter in The Black Book of Communism, it’s all on the record: 65 million dead in China, 20 million in the Soviet Union, 2 million in Cambodia, 2 million in North Korea, 1.7 million in Africa, 1.5 million in Afghanistan, 1 million in Eastern Europe, 1 million in Vietnam, 150, 000 in Latin America. (John Muscat, Quadrant Online, September 2012)I have my theories but writing them out makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Having said that; a paranoid who is attacked and killed proves that his 'paranoia' was not actually paranoia at all but an entirely justified fear...but try telling him that.
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