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Originally Posted by downquark1
How can you compare that to the idealogy of everyone being equal? You could say the same thing about religious wars or indeed any war.
I'm sure when Marks developed the idea, secret police and cold war were not in his plan.
Communism is not the evil - it's human selfishness.
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The idea of everyone sharing and being equal is a nice one, but you're right insofar as you point out that basic human nature means it will never work. I don't think it is therefore possible to distil 'pure communism' and somehow set it apart from somebody's implementation of it. Communism is an attempt to deal with human nature, so to attempt to evaluate it in isolation from human nature is absurd. If human nature is such that applied communism always ends up being enforced by totalitarian dictatorship (and it always does), then the basic ideology is demonstrably wrong. Ramrod's statistics ably illustrate this.