It seems very popular for Westerners to talk about communism murdering millions while ignoring the endless wars of the Western world which have murdered millions. This is why I liken the West to the alcoholics I have known: always looking over others' shoulders while ignoring the damage they do to themselves, their families and friends, and their societies.
Are you advocating communism or fascism ,indeed any kind of totalitarianism ? Democratic government is the best system we have at present ,imperfect as it is. All other systems are much worse.
I'm not advocating anything, and I have never seen a democratic government in my life. I cannot judge other systems because I have not lived under them. It's rather like not knowing someone until you live with her/him. I can only seriously criticize what I live with, day in and day out, and it is extremely authoritarian. The authoritarianism is masked by a cloak of what one professor calls liberal fascism where one is seemingly permitted to be free to have marginalized views. However, if anyone seriously challenges the power structure -- the puny efforts of Occupy come to mind; Congress passed legislation to set up concentration camps for Occupy members -- you will then see just how authoritarian your society is.
And one important element of this authoritarian society (the U.S.) is to have people constantly bragging about how it's the best system that ever was, is, or will be. Meanwhile, children go hungry and homeless, and the oligarchs get richer and richer.
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It seems very popular for Westerners to talk about communism murdering millions while ignoring the endless wars of the Western world which have murdered millions. This is why I liken the West to the alcoholics I have known: always looking over others' shoulders while ignoring the damage they do to themselves, their families and friends, and their societies.
Are you advocating communism or fascism ,indeed any kind of totalitarianism ? Democratic government is the best system we have at present ,imperfect as it is. All other systems are much worse.
I'm not advocating anything, and I have never seen a democratic government in my life. I cannot judge other systems because I have not lived under them. It's rather like not knowing someone until you live with her/him. I can only seriously criticize what I live with, day in and day out, and it is extremely authoritarian. The authoritarianism is masked by a cloak of what one professor calls liberal fascism where one is seemingly permitted to be free to have marginalized views. However, if anyone seriously challenges the power structure -- the puny efforts of Occupy come to mind; Congress passed legislation to set up concentration camps for Occupy members -- you will then see just how authoritarian your society is.
And one important element of this authoritarian society (the U.S.) is to have people constantly bragging about how it's the best system that ever was, is, or will be. Meanwhile, children go hungry and homeless, and the oligarchs get richer and richer.