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The Bad Always End Up on Top:
by imran patel on Sep 01, 2007 07:18 PM

Due to the fact that free will exists even under the strictest attempts to oppress it simply due to human nature, compliance with socialism and communism becomes a major problem in a communist or socialist state. In order to combat this free will, noncompliance, disagreement, and dissension it often becomes necessary for an inherently unequal elite to assume authority and power in a communist state in effort to combat this problem. A concentration of widespread power arises at the top among those elite as a natural result of there existing a superior few. Just as Lord Acton noticed "absolute power corrupts absolutely," large amounts of power intensified in a small area tend to attract those hungry for power while corrupting those in power. 3

Examples of "the bad" on top in control economies:

Josef Stalin, Soviet Union

Pol Pot, Kmehr Rouge

Adolph Hitler, Germany under the National Socialist German Workers Party (nazi in short)

Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union

Fidel Castro, Cuba

Mao Zedong, China

Kim Il Sung, North Korea

Tito, Yugoslavia

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Huey P. Long, communist leaning governor of Louisiana in the 30's famous for 'removing' opposition

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