Topics ยป Communism and Socialism
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.
Many people feel empty, a world that seemed so strong just collapsed. Forty years have been wasted on stupid strife for the sake of an unsuccessful experiment. The values gathered together have vanished, the strategies for survival have become ridiculous. And so forty years of our lives have become a story, a bad anecdote. But it may be possible to remember these adventures with a kind of irony.
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.