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RE:Communism an understanding of only the Intellectual Elite
by habc on Apr 06, 2007 10:40 AM

Mr. Tade,

You are only following surface bhaashan of communists - they are hypocrites trying to fool everyone.
Here is a book on Amazon.com
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7725374-5082460? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175835999&sr=8-1
Here are the excerpts from the Amazon web site

Communism did kill, Courtois and his fellow historians demonstrate, with ruthless efficiency: 25 million in Russia during the Bolshevik and Stalinist eras, perhaps 65 million in China under the eyes of Mao Zedong, 2 million in Cambodia, millions more Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America--an astonishingly high toll of victims. This freely expressed penchant for homicide, Courtois maintains, was no accident, but an integral trait of a philosophy, and a practical politics, that promised to erase class distinctions by erasing classes and the living humans that populated them. Courtois and his contributors document Communism's crimes in numbing detail, moving from country to country, revolution to revolution. The figures they offer will likely provoke argument, if not among cliometricians then among the ideologically inclined. So, too, will Courtois's suggestion that those who hold Lenin, Trotsky, and Ho Chi Minh in anything other than contempt are dupes, witting or not, of a murderous school of thought--one that, while in retreat around the world, still has many adherents. A thought-provoking work of history and social criticism, The Black Book of Communism fully merits the broadest possible readership and discussion. --Gregory McNamee

From Publishers Weekly
In France, this damning reckoning of communism's worldwide legacy was a bestseller that sparked passionate arguments among intellectuals of the Left. Essentially a body count of communism's victims in the 20th century, the book draws heavily from recently opened Soviet archives. The verdict: communism was responsible for between 85 million and 100 million deaths in the century. In France, both sales and controversy were fueled, as Martin Malia notes in the foreword, by editor Courtois's specific comparison of communism's "class genocide" with Nazism's "race genocide."

After reading this you should ask yourself how you can support an ideology which killed 100 million people. I think like most Indians you are very ideologically innocent.

The web site http://marxwords.blogspot.com/ ahs lots of quotes from Marx and Engels and friends - please read them and go through the archives of that web site by clicking on the dates in the left side - the quotes will open your eyes.

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