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Pretty Good Summation of the Far Left (or Far Right in Terms of Need for Government Control)

Many still regard Marxism as a good idea that fell into bad hands, notably Lenin’s and Stalin’s. I prefer the view of Martin Amis, expressed in The New York Times the other day: “It was not a good idea that somehow went wrong. It was a very bad idea from the outset, forced into life with barely imaginable self-righteousness, pedantry, dynamism and horror.” It defied human nature, so humans accepted it only under threat of violence, which inevitably was applied. In the hands of bullies who wanted power, Marxism was a terrifying weapon.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/robert-fulford-smart-people-still-fall-for-the-murderous-fraud-of-communism
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JP1119 · 36-40, M
The far left is dead, at least in the USA. You’re beating a dead horse.
Northwest · M
@JP1119 The far left in the US is not Marxism, and never was. Sure, there have been people who identified as Marxists, but they were never more than the fringe.