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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Religious & physical extermination in Tibet
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>Communist Genocide in Tibet

So is anyone surprised about this? The fundamental
principle of Marxism is the need for class struggle,
which means any cultural group opposed to the absolute
power of the Communists is to be ruthlessly destroyed.
This includes intellectuals, religious groups, property
holders, and anyone smart enough to be a threat to the
party. By destroying the existing culture and reducing
the population to the level of a dull, uneducated, brutish
mass, the party will have no significant internal opposition
to worry about, and can go about its business of establishing
communism. Who do you think we are up against, the Girl Scouts? :-)

>	The obliteration of Tibet's culture was carried on with almost
>	insane violence, 

Now this I can't understand. After all this time, isn't it clear
that the violent obliteration of non-communist culture is a fundamental
principle of communism? There is nothing insane about it, it is
coldly calculated, entirely deliberate, and well thought out beforehand.

>        Here's cause for meditation on the developing conscience of
>        history: at a time when the entire world was anathematizing
>        the war in Vietnam, an almost flawless program of genocide
>        was being carried out in total secrecy a few thousand kilo-
>        meters away on the same continent.  [ page 172 ]

Again, what is so surprising about this? Part of the game is to
control information. Hasn't anyone noticed that communist states
like to monopolize the control of information (and disinformation)?
Democratic states which allow free flow of information (so that
the voters can make rational political choices) are a juicy
target for the masters of propaganda and disinformation.

The communists rewrite history, educate (or rather "diseducate",
to coin a phrase) the youth, and generally make great efforts
to impose their worldview on the rest of us.

That is one reason you won't see a network like this in the 
Soviet Union, for a long time to come ... free flow of information
is anethema to the communists ...

Seriously, Ron, thanks for a great article!