Are you suggesting that people should be tried for believing in communism or trying to practice it? Sounds as dangerous as McCarthyism, witch-hunting and the Crusades to me. Communists have no claim over political correctness as no one else has.
On 28/04/2008, Murali K Warier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Though not a direct answer to the question, the following comment from > Theodore Dalrymple on cultural Marxism, a.k.a Political Correctness is > illuminating: > > *Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of > communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist > propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; > and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people > are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, > or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose > once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to > co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's > standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of > emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political > correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.* > > Marxism as an economic alternative may have suffered a body blow after the > fall of the Soviet Union, but Cultural Marxism thrives in academia and the > intelligentsia. This is not an accident or a coincidence - it is the result > of willful neglect by the West - after all, there were no Nuremberg style > trials of Communist offenders after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In many > countries, the communists just had to recolor their flag. Vladimir Bukowsky, > the Soviet dissident who suffered torture during the Cold War has this to > say: > http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID={B3EBE5BF-CD12-4168-878D-F705E8C3BB4F}<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=%7BB3EBE5BF-CD12-4168-878D-F705E8C3BB4F%7D> > > Best regards, > Murali. > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > simple question > > what is communism > > would like to be educated on that > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't > want to hear. > > > -- Bobby Kunhu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
