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VGPolyglot on 29 March 2017
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John2290 said:
TheWPCTraveler said:

Thanks. I personally prefer looking at and reading about orthodox Marxism, though. There's something about it that gives me a sense of comfort, though it's really a mental association of unsavory types with other sorts.

I want to point to the italicised, though. I have to admit that when I looked that the current state of the church, this part sort of leaked into my post, so I apologise. It's extremely impressive, however, to note just how much these elements have seeped into the church (look up liberation theology, or even just information on the current Pope).

However, do you agree with me that what I stated was logically sound? I suppose that's what I really want to know here.

By the way, thanks for piling on my reading list. Always happy to see it grow, although restarting progress on actually clearing it is going to become more Herculean.

It shouldn't bring you comfort. Don't let yourself forget that more than a hundred million were killed directly by followers of Marx and that continues into the 21st century, albeit less directly. I'm not telling you what you should think here nor what you should read however the real world implications whould scare you and that comfort that you feel should be something that you should try to side step or at least unsettle yourself be reading oppossing philosophy and writings. At the very least looking at other ideologies will help you understand why it is giving you comfort and why that should be not such a good thing.

If we're going that route, 100 million is way less than the hundreds of millions by capitalist countries. Also, Stalinism and Maoism are not Marxism, they are separate ideologies (for example, Stalin's "socialism in one country" is not part of Marxist ideology).