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Kasz216 on 19 June 2012
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bouzane said:
richardhutnik said:
EdHieron said:
richardhutnik said:
Chris Hu said:
In my book all organized religions are cults.

 

 

Considering that Marxism was the single greatest ideology of death during the 20th century, and due to population size, ended up causing more deaths than religions beliefs in other centuries combined, I am not going to say it is religion that did it.  Apparently, there is something that happens when you combine any ideology with government, that causes mass death and other horrors.  This should be expected, since the role of government is to act as collective coersion against its population, for the greater good.

Care to provide numbers to back up your absurd statement about Marxism? Also, if the actions of Stalin are to be blamed on Marxism then why not blame atrocities such as the Vietnam war on Capitalism?

Marxism calls for a worldwide revolution and a conversion of the entire world into marxism because in Karl Marx's view it would be the only way to really accomplish Communism.

Capitalism doesn't have a similar proclimation... Free Market Capitalists believeing that capitalism is superior and will convert other nations through merit.  (and more or less has.)

This is why the Cold war was focused on spreading and containing communism.

 

Also, worth noting Marixism requires a revolution... Marx was EXTREMLY critical of "marxist" communist political parties, seeing them as sellouts who had no real comprhension of what his vision was, seeing them as damaging, because they would become wateredown puppets of the rich.