Communism is an extremely harmful and mistaken ideology, IMO, no matter how you would emphasize its different nuances. So is fascism and its declinations. But saying that Stalin's dictatorship had nothing to do with marxism is the usual excuse of communist utopians: pretending the System was Right - it just happened to be applied slightly wrongly. I'm coming from a former communist dictatorship and to hear this kind of justification here (for that is what it amounts to), in what we thought is a land of freedom, is simply outrageous. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
