Comments on: Stalin added very little to this sort of thinking

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:43:00 +0000

Bob Sykes says,”…Stalin actually killed Jews, too, but we don’t know how many.”

Not too many because as soon as he started in on the Jews they poisoned him.

Alternately Unz had an idea that I had never even imagined. He said it is possible that the 6 million Jews that died in WWII were mostly killed by Stalin. A very original idea.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:01:32 +0000

What is more important is that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Che et al. get a pass. There are no films or novels depicting or describing the horrors committed by communists. It’s all Hitler, Hitler, Hitler all the time.

Stalin actually killed Jews, too, but we don’t know how many.

By: Faze

Faze — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:58:28 +0000

At some point more of an exciting lark rather than serious revolutionary fervor.

In ALL cases an exciting lark, Lu An Li. I witnessed no “serious revolutionary fervor” among the 60s radicals I knew. It was a big game of cowboys and Indians to us.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:22:30 +0000

Revolution is a tool for Social Competition and at same time giving meaning to their lives.

Extreme Narcissism.

I also think there is a tendency that societies with fast growth lead to war. Leads to optimism and the dream to change the world. Purification.

Revolutionaries have a lot of free time…

By: Lu An Li

Lu An Li — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:03:25 +0000

These American Sixties radicals really also got a rush out of being counter-culture and some of them such the Weather Underground being able to fool and evade the FBI. At some point more of an exciting lark rather than serious revolutionary fervor.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:14:31 +0000

Anything that a right to exist must thereby be ceded the right to defend itself against an existential threat. That’s what the right to exist in practice.

But a revolutionary does not recognize the government’s right to exist. It’s not even a secret.

Any government that doesn’t seek to exterminate those who would destroy it is stupid. I would argue that a regime that stupid has by its stupidity forfeited the right to exist. The world can do without stupid governments.

Call it Regime Darwinism.

By: With the thoughts you'd be thinkin

With the thoughts you'd be thinkin — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:40:50 +0000

Seeing how revolutionary misbehaviour in Tsarist Russia has perked your interest, have you ever considered reading Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore? Basically it’s about Stalin before he became Stalin, so it follows him through many endeavours such as his role as a Georgian national poet, role as a gang leader and terrorist, escapee from Siberian exile, and much more. You’d be shocked with what he got away with. Link related is a bank robbery that he planned which killed 40 people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:38:03 +0000

It never occurs to these memoirists that their motives are entirely selfish.

Selfish communists, who think communism will work because humans aren’t really selfish, is condemned by writer who expect/demands human communists not be so selfish.