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I replied to that already. I told you that far from being disconnected from reality, ideology was permeating anything. Political indoctrination was done everywhere, from school, to work, to unions, to the communist party meetings and to the movies and shows. Political indoctrination and state policies were based not on the Stalin example, but explicitly on Marx, Engels and Lenin's work. The statute of the thick red cover books was equivalent to the one holy books enjoy  in churches.
And I told you all this was so from direct first hand personal experience. You only satisfy with quotations. Well maybe I'll make a diary on that too, showing how the communist dictatorships were direct consequence of the ideology and on the place marxist/communist ideology held in those countries.
If you weren't only busy with vicious capitalists and (I presume) imperialists, you would have know that already, since for 3 decades lots of literature has been published.

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 Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 01:18:09 PM EST
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"and state policies were based not on the Stalin example, but explicitly on Marx, Engels and Lenin's work."

Oh really - just as an example, do remind me of where in Marx and Engels they advocate a huge and repressive police force - in a communist society. This is pretty fundamental - so your first-hand experience was of a regime which was no more communist than Kampuchea was democratic under the Khmer Rouge.

Also yet again you use the phrase "communist dictatorship" - if YOU had really read and remembered anything from Marx you'd know that he would see this as a contradiction in terms - as already pointed out. Just try to take on board that simple fact and stop repeating yourself.

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

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 03:01:21 PM EST
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