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So, Ideology is Dead. So now what ? | 366 comments (366 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Be outraged if you prefer emotion over reason - I thought you valued the latter. It's quite obvious to any rational person that Stalin's SU was an oppressive dictatorship, not remotely a form of "communism" as envisaged by Marx. The attempt to insist that it was communism because Stalin kept the word is just a matter of ideological dogmatism.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 04:36:36 PM EST
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I am outraged because I heard that argument over and over again. Philosophical justifications of the "genuine" communism are no better than the actual denial. Those people lived that ideology in their every day life in terms you're far from picturing, and the ways the philosophy was justifying murder are as alive as Hitler's justifications for race purification.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 04:46:45 PM EST
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Experience is not the same as emotion.

by Lily (put - lilyalmond - here <a> yahaah.france) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 04:48:53 AM EST
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