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From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Freedom of faith (Communism)
Message-ID: <1586@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:25:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 11:25:16 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 09:22:58 EDT
Reply-To: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Organization: CWRU Dept. Comp. Eng., Cleveland OH
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>Since the communists aim at world domination and the destruction of
>our way of life it hardly seems unreasonable to try and stop them.
>Communism is like cancer, you can't treat it like a normal
>condition or it will kill you.

Doesn't this statement find its parallel in the religious persecutions
of the past? 

>Let me explain communism to you: society is viewed in terms of
>classes. In order to establish a communist society, the communist
>party aims at the annihilation of the intellectual class, the
>political/military class, the capitalist class, and anyone
>else who could possibly oppose the aims of the party.
>
>Witness the mass starvations and liquidations in the Soviet Union
>and Cambodia during the initial stages of communist rule.
>
>Once society has been reduced to a helpless mass of relatively
>powerless and ignorant individuals, the new order can be imposed.
>The new order essentially serves to perpetuate and enrich
>the party at the expense of the masses, in the guise of creating
>a "workers paradise" (which is nothing more than a fiction created
>for purposes of propaganda.)
>
>Why should we tolerate such a barbaric form of tyranny?

You are confusing personal freedom to believe in Communism and a Soviet
style communist government.  You don't need the later to have the
former.   I would even go as far as stating that if the majority people
of the United States believed in a Communist Party and elected its
leader to the post of President, it should be possible (as long as the
President, after coming to power, doesn't dismantle the democratic set
up).  There is at least one country in the world (India) where you are
free to believe in any political faith, create a party, stand in
elections and even get elected.  There are two states in India with
Communist governments (the most of the rest, of course, is owned by the
Congress party).  They are perfectly all right as long as they don't
try to tear down the political fabric of the whole nation.

sundar r. iyengar		

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