>The first definition is flawed in that absolute control is
>impossible, one, and (if one even accepts an approximation) in that this
>could apply to 99 percent of the governments in history--while the term
>istself has been reserved for Nazis and Communists.
It has not been reserved for those. If you think again and really mean that
rhetoric, I fear you are lost in some delusion. No talk will get you out.
BTW, those definitions come from a dictionary. They are not mine.
>and the actual fact that
>its two subjects--the USSR and Nazi Germany--regulated aspects of public
>life
A nice euphemism.
>Scientifically, totalitarian
>is a useless term.
ROTLF. Science has nothing to do with those issues.
>As for the Ukraine, I hope you are not basing your comment here on what
>everyone else seems to, which is the totally discredited "scholarship" of
>Robert Conquest, whose primary sources turned out to be pre-War Ukrainian
>fascist propagandists.
I have no idea who Conquest is.
>Avoiding??? the civil wars? I don't quite
>understand. Thes wars were not created by some single unitary
>phenomenon.
>They can not be "avoided" by some simple act of will. There is
>philosophical idealism lurking in this ideation.
I think I was clear enough. I did not talk about the whole civil war but about
things that happend within them. What should be avoided is murdering,
torturing, and jailing comrades. What should be avoided is treason. What
should be avoided is the creation of fronts within the left for the sake of some
bolchevik pigs' lust for power.
>I became a communist because I am someone who
>sees the need for a deep social transformation, and I understand that this
>implies a direct struggle for power.
That is the problem. Apart the ruling class, some will not want you in power
over them (us). Are you going to fight them (us) harder than our real ennemies
like the bolcheviks did?
>Will we work with others who do not share our world view? It's imperative!
Indeed.
>Every Leninist knows the value of united fronts.
Except Lenin and his followers, it seems.
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