Friday, December 08, 2017

Why Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It? - The Liberty Review

See the source imageWhy Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It? - The Liberty Review
"For as long as I can remember, I’ve puzzled about why people become communists. 
I have no doubt about why someone would stop being one. 
After all, we have a century of evidence of the murder, famine, and general destruction caused by the idea. Ignoring all this takes a special kind of willful blindness to reality.
...But how communism would work in practice is not something they want to talk about. 
They just imagined that some magical Hegelian shift would take place in the course of history that would work it all out.
So if there is no rational case for communism as such, why do people go for this stuff?..."
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