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Originally Posted by flip
Keep in mind that I am defending communism only insofar as that a) it does not have to be violent or an epic failure and b) just because all of the preexisting examples of it have sucked doesn't mean we can't continue to try and examine its feasibility.
I totally empathize with your hatred of it and understand that no existing (or previous) incarnations have been good.
Think of it this way. Hate the people that instituted it, not the institution itself, the people that put it in place/ran the governments that practised it are at fault here not the theory itself.
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But the theory led to the institution. Just like our institutions are based around, say John Locke and others. Communist systems were based around theories of their own. In fact, some of their practitioners, such as Lenin and Mao, were also some of the main theorists of communism. It's an evil theory, one designed for coercion and elitist arrogance.