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Originally posted by Agamemnon+Jun 8 2005, 08:20 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Agamemnon @ Jun 8 2005, 08:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Flame Of Liberty@Jun 8 2005, 07:12 PM
Wow? The list is pretty bang on. If I omit gender/feminist issues (obviously conservatives really love this stuff), then
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
6. Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
by Mao Zedong
2. Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
1. The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
are books that severely deform people and their opinions to these days.
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Why was Mein Kampf one of the most harmful books of the 20th century?
The Communist Manifesto 'deforms' people? Books can do that? What is the right 'form'... yours? I suppose all copies should be burned...? [/b][/quote]
Not surprisingly, your post is again full of demagoguery. You know very well that I am against bans on such potentially harmful things as drugs and guns. Yet it does not stop you from suggesting that I am in favor of banning books, thus making me look like inquisitor. I challenge you to find my post where I wanted something to be banned.
As for your "point." If you weren’t such a nitpicker you would realize no one is suggesting that books themselves do the harm. But let me explain it to you – it is the views and ideas in those books. Do you dispute that those books and their respective authors have great influence over lots and lots of people? It is this influence that is harmful, along with consequences of actions caused by such influential views
Communist, fascist and nazi ideas have destruction, tyranny, murder and oppression at their core. One cannot say that Marx was "kind of right" and when the Soviets put his ideas into practice "it just didn’t work out." Exactly this kind of thinking shows that to this day it is not properly understood what is Marxism all about. Many people still believe that evil capitalists exploit laborers or that big profits are made at the expense of the poor. Of course, they behave accordingly (during the elections, for example), they demand socialization of the economy and whole society, because they believe socialism is at least partially right and we have to be "balanced". The result? Poverty, parasitisation and lack of freedom all over the world. Do I think that is harmful? You bet I do.
I hope you excuse me when I say that murderous ideas are harmful. I hope you excuse me when I say that tyranny is not a right `form` of social interaction. However, I am afraid that your relativistic mind will not understand it.
PS Nice jab DFF. Cheap, but nice.