This is the best characterization of Communism I ever found. I would make a step further, adding, that it's an instruction manual for organized crime to take power over a country. Fascism or Bolshevism is the same Socialism, only with nuances of implementation and the speed of nationalization. As a second generation of Gulag's survivors I'm absolutely terrified to see this criminal regime being implemented by the current administration, step by step mirroring Mussolini... (even refusing 2000 foreign ships ready to help cleaning the Golf is the same as Stalin's refusal to let foreign ships with food to save millions of starvation)...Respectfully,

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P.S. There is a book by Helen Rappoport (UK), which finally proves that Lenin was the only socialist of that time, who advocated immediate nationalization. Every one else was for gradual takeover of the private business and property. Thus Fascism is the "right way" to implement it, the true Socialism...

Fellow Patriots, educate yourself on the tactics of Communism and you will as I have come to the realization that not only can this happen to the United States, it is and has been for some time, already happening:

A Study of Communism: J Edgar Hoover 1962

You Can Trust the Communists: Dr. Fred Schwartz 1960

A good communist is a dead communist. I am still waiting for someone to ask BHO, "how long have you been a communist?" The same goes for most of the democraps and many of republican leaders. BTW, the only difference between a communist and a socialist is how fast they want to act.

Communism is criminal. Its leader is always the most efficient combination of murder and cunning, same as the mafia or a drug cartel.

Defending communists has always been hallmark of most Democrat politicians. Thank God for Joe McCarthy, who made being a communist a permanent black mark.

Every post is so "right on" and chilling.

How can human beings be so blind - so many Americans refuse to see what BHO is about - they just don't seem to understand his ideology - heaven help us. He is moving so quickly to destroy all that we are - and yes, for whatever reason, overy the years, the word communism has become at least benign, if not a fuzzy, feel good word that indicates love and humanity for all.

Bravo Sir.

Orwell, who hated communist/fascist big brother saw it best.

A man may be a great artist, should he be a communist/fascist then he's a shabby human being.

My Mom's 87, going strong, and, unless there's a miracle, will die a Quaker atheist and a believer in communism. "Isn't communism the closest thing to the way Jesus wanted us to live, like in Acts, where they shared all things?" ("Yeah Ma, that's why He emphasized the need to shoot the ones that didn't wanna go along with that.")

My sister, well into her 60's, cares for her and does an excellent job and suffers pretty much from the same political dementia. "Oh, come ON, this is SO not the 50's, where we really have to worry about a stinking Commie under every bed."

My family is full of people who spent years verbalizing wishes for the demise of George Bush with little more seeming malice than one wishes for an end to rainy weather.

There are no end to people who are the unwitting recipients of centuries of Christian culture and who, only because of that, demonstrate habits of decency and compassion but who miss completely and deny the source of the elements of goodwill they retain.

The tragedy of that will play out in this world but the greatest pity of it is eternal. God honors those who distain Him by absenting Himself from that place of their eternal refuge and I suspect that in the course of aeons there nothing will remain of those seeming virtues they once displayed.

Jeff, you have it nailed! Great comments from everyone, especially Jimmy D. My grandfather claimed to be a communist. He pointed out that the Soviet Union was not a true communist regime...simply because they still had a Govt and not everyone was equal. Too bad I wasn't old enough to point out that his vision of communism could not take place in the real world. Real people have ambition and desire and they will take control if allowed. They may say "It is for the good of the people." But really, it is to satisfy their on ego of self-importance and to enrich their life at the expense of others...all the while contributing nothing to the well-being of the community.

Please see that Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, and all those other Hollywood lunatics (and a certain president) get this memo.

"There are no end...of goodwill they retain."

Jimmy, that was excellent, and eloquent. So many of these aetheistic and/or socialistic types draw much of their core beliefs from Christianity and yet they are too uneducated, or refuse, to acknowledge their debt. Actually, it is only when I started studying history as a pastime that I myself came to realize this debt myself. And it was entirely by accident. What a great irony is embedded in the beliefs of these "enlightened ones." "The truth will set you free." Christ's words are so sublime they scare me at times.

Communism is evil. But it is not enough to say what is wrong - one must say what is right and what we must do to assure human rights and liberty.

I have a free book (no strings, no ads) at http://jeremiahbezalel.org that addresses human rights and civil government from a thoroughly biblical perspective. You might take a look at it. It does address collectivism directly, but its emphasis is on what God requires of us in the areas of freedom, government and how we treat one another generally.

Jeremiah