Reply #4: a quick thought and then i have to go [View All]

[tomp]

your dad's view is typical simplistic american brainwashed thinking.

first, even if we don't like "communism" we have no right to tell other countries they can't have the system they want.

second, "communism" is a total bogeyman. the u.s. and all capitalist countries maligned and distorted communism form the word go because capitalists (imperialists, really) will allow not one iota of infringement of their right to control all labor and production. they lied and made up stories about what was happening in the soviet union to sway public opinion against the emerging new system. they went all out to sabotage the soviet system, creating instense antagonism and prompted natural defensive policies from the soviet union, based on survival, which continued to escalate right up through the cold war. in a real sense, world imperialism created the evils of "communism". what communism would have been without being beseiged by virtually the entire rest of the world is an unknown quantity.

the same thing is happening now with "terrorism", the new "communism". imperialism has to have a bogeyman to justify its actions.
gotta go.