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Originally Posted by Xantar
I actually think Strangler's termis quite apt particularly since Kim Jong Il is very much not a communist. Say what you will about the ideology, but a real communist would actually care for the plight of the people. Kim Jong Il is more like a fascist who styles himself as a communist, and if Marx is aware of this, he would probably spin in his grave so fast he'd develop his own field of gravity.
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Indeed.
So did Stalin care about his people? Did Mao care about his people? The answer is hell no and we still call them communists.
Has any major communist government really cared about the plight of their people? USSR? Nope. China? Nope. Both Cuba and Vietnam have been accused of human rights violations. The only countries that might have been friendly towards the poeople are the eastern bloc countries that were forced into communism. For example Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia all tried to distance themselves and faced soviet reprisals.
I see one example of a country that had the peoples best interest at heart. Yugoslavia. Joesef Bros Tito was a commy-partisan and fought the Nazis and liberated his country without Red army support. With this action he earned the peoples support and ultimately became the leader. He refused to join in the Soviet satellite states and there was nothing the Soviets could do because he controlled the masses.
To be fair none of the major communist governments are truly communist. Communism is about eqality. Well we can clearly see that in places like China and the former USSR that eqaulity was not present. We also see these governments institue some capitalistc economic policies such as Deng Xiaoping's special economic zones for a free market economy. We also see a countires change the ideology alltogether. Communism is about world revolution, and thats a policy that Lenin followed closely, but after Stalin came to power he realized he could not acomplish that goal so he opted for "Socialism in one country."
And you can't call him a facist who styles himself as a communist.
The two by definition are opposites.They're Mortal enemies. Thats like calling a pear an eggplant. The term commy-facist is and oxy-moron. He's more of a Totalitarion-militaristic-dictator thats a little funny in the head that happens to be in charge of a so called "communist" government.