Once again...my friend...Walter E. Williams...



Grove City College publishes an excellent newsletter titled "Visions and Values." Its July 2006 edition features an interview with Dr. Richard Pipes, acclaimed Russian historian and Harvard University professor of Sovietology. The interview was conducted by Grove City College professor of political science Dr. Paul Kengor.

Dr. Pipes, who served on the National Security Council during the Reagan administration, explained that there are actually only a few communists among academics. At first glance, that's a puzzling observation, given the leftist bias at most college campuses. Drs. Pipes and Kengor explain the puzzle in a way that makes perfect sense.

While academic leftists, and I'd include their media allies, are not communists, they are anti-anti-communists. In other words, they have contempt for right-wingers, conservatives or libertarians who are anti-communists. Why? Academic leftists, and their media allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much that they are either blind to, or tolerant of, its many shortcomings.

In practice, communism is nothing less than sheer barbarism that makes even the horrors of Naziism pale in comparison. Professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii outlines that barbarism in his book "Death by Government," a comprehensive detailing of the roughly 170 million people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century. From 1917 to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union murdered about 62 million of its own people. During Mao Zedong's reign, 35,236,000, possibly more, Chinese citizens were murdered. By comparison, Hitler's Nazis managed to murder 21 million of its citizens and citizens in nations they conquered. Adding these numbers to the 60 million lives lost in war makes the 20th century mankind's most brutal era.

At home and abroad, leftists have done a thorough and commendable job documenting and condemning the horrors and crimes of Hitler and his fascist Nazi regime, but when have you heard them direct similar condemnation of Joseph Stalin, his successors and Mao Zedong? By and large, they've chosen to overlook the horrors of communism.

The reason for their reluctance to condemn the barbarism of communism is simple. Dr. Pipes says, "Intellectuals, by the very nature of their professions, grant enormous attention to words and ideas. And they are attracted by socialist ideas. They find that the ideas of communism are praiseworthy and attractive; that, to them, is more important than the practice of communism. Now Nazi ideals, on the other hand, were pure barbarism; nothing could be said in favor of them."

Often, when people evaluate capitalism, they evaluate a system that exists on Earth. When they evaluate communism, they are talking about a non-existent Utopia. What exists on Earth, with all of its problems and shortcomings, is always going to fail miserably when compared to a Utopia. The very attempt to achieve the utopian goals of communism requires the ruthless suppression of the individual and an attack on any institution that might compromise the loyalty of the individual to the state. That's why one of the first orders of business for communism, and those who support its ideas, is the attack on religion and the family.

Rank nations according to whether they are closer to the capitalism end or the communism end of the economic spectrum. Then rank nations according to human rights protections. Finally, rank nations according to per capita income. Without question, citizens of those nations closer to capitalism enjoy a higher standard of living and a far greater measure of liberty than those in nations closer to communism.

welcome to Brazil
where communism is your best friend or enemy...
..we had our good times with dictators, thanks to communism my country is miserable, they think and act as a democratics, same sh!T for me...

like my country, your countries troubles is not from communism but rather from foreign intervention, globalization, world bank loans and from politicians who act like pimps and use their country for their own personal gains...

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

GULP !!...I see that path...slowly being traveled in this country...RE-GULP !!...

why does living in a society where the playing ground is equal for everyone scare you?? Have you no love for your fellow man? are you so used to seeing people on the streets that you forget they are human beings? its more scary to think that you are just one paycheck away from being them....

I agree with the playing ground being equal...and equal start...but...NOT...an equal finish !!...I mean...afterall...God helps those who helps themselves...

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
Karl Marx

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon

the only problem with Communism is the same problem with Democracy

as soon you put people in charge they manipulate the system for their own enrichment and the people still become life support mechanisms for the ruling class

sad, but true...

We do live in a country where you can make the playing ground level for yourself...

the key is simple.

EARN IT.

Many have gone from no education to major corporate owners in this country.

One of my friends in high school now owns his very own chain of hotels... He started while we were still in high school... with a dream, a car and a PLAN... which he followed.

but guess what... He just might be handing out money to someone that did not share either his dream, his car payments or his HARD WORK.

It's called eminent domain.

And God wants us to help others.

Doesnt Elite mean "the best"?Isnt that a good thing?

If college instructors are sooooo dangerous like the right wingers keep saying, then why do they send their kids to college?

only as long as it's not a self bestowed honor

The wackos said Socrates was dangerous too.

ummmmm... didn't they kill him?

Yeah he drank poison He could've recanted and saved himself ,but he wouldnt.

"Socrates commits injustice and is a busybody, in that he investigates the things beneath the earth and in the heavens,makes the weaker arguement the stronger,and teaches these things to others."

This is what Socrates was charged with.It sounds a lot like the stuff the right wingers say about so called "leftist" college instructors now.