[MD] Politics

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Platt, Ron, Everybody

> Ron:
> No, according to Moq, communism is anti-intellectual and immoral.


I'll say this one last time. It is not communism that is anti-intellectual 
and sent people to Gulag etc. Communism is an idea that grew out of the 
intellectual level, formulating a theory for how economy should be built, 
that's the main thing. Real communism have never been realized, and the 
things that happened under for example the reign of Stalin and Pol Pot etc 
has got no more to do with communism then the crusades has to do with Jesus. 
Furthermore; the fact that Marx and Engels suggested that during the 
transition period between the socialistic society and the communistic 
society there should be a "proletarian dictatorship" needn't be considered 
immoral from an MOQ view either; Intellectual patterns may use social 
patterns to further their goals, and does so even today, thus the 
"proletarian dictatorship"  needn't be immoral at all, if it could work the 
way it is described by Marx and engels - during a transition period.

I am not convinced this could work in practice, but I feel I have to take 
the role of Advocatus Diaboli here, because this debate becomes quite 
one-sided otherwise.

Regards

Chris