Platt, Ron, Everybody > Ron: > No, according to Moq, communism is anti-intellectual and immoral.
I'll say this one last time. It is not communism that is anti-intellectual and sent people to Gulag etc. Communism is an idea that grew out of the intellectual level, formulating a theory for how economy should be built, that's the main thing. Real communism have never been realized, and the things that happened under for example the reign of Stalin and Pol Pot etc has got no more to do with communism then the crusades has to do with Jesus. Furthermore; the fact that Marx and Engels suggested that during the transition period between the socialistic society and the communistic society there should be a "proletarian dictatorship" needn't be considered immoral from an MOQ view either; Intellectual patterns may use social patterns to further their goals, and does so even today, thus the "proletarian dictatorship" needn't be immoral at all, if it could work the way it is described by Marx and engels - during a transition period. I am not convinced this could work in practice, but I feel I have to take the role of Advocatus Diaboli here, because this debate becomes quite one-sided otherwise. Regards Chris Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
