BTW I just wrote a huge response and the page refreshed and it all dissapeared, will respond when I get back from work.
As for colonialism being comparable to the Soviet, German and Ukrainian crimes…
How often was that in India?
Maybe this?
How about this?
Very common in India.
Redistribution of goods in practice.
Cambodia
No more kulaks and own property. They should be happy, shouldn’t they?
NKVD glorious actions in prison. These bodies must have been guilty…
Elite of reactionist Poland.
Fortunately the working class brought justice.
They’re so happy they were given a chance to redeem for their crimes against the working class.
Uncle Joe with Molotov and Ribbentrop (hanged in 46 in Nuremberg) after signing the treat that lead to the IInd World War
Good friends. Russian and German soldiers in BrzeÅ?Ä?, former reactionist Poland, fall 1939.
They usually died less than hour later. Their crime? They lived. And no, they weren’t Jews. Despite what you may have read, it didn’t happen only to Jews.
How are those photos relevant to the thread?
If it hadn’t been for Marx and his followers, none of these photos could have been captured.
But yes, Marx was cool, his ideas are great and relevant. Some of his followers made some mistakes, but it doesn’t matter. The ideology is great, isn’t it?
Show me ONE PLACE where it got a chance and didn’t turn out like that.
[quote]BonnotGang wrote:
I would rob those who aquire wealth by robbing the workers of their labour, I see no reason not to.
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The put a gun to their head and take money from them?
Interesting.
Because that is more or less what robbing means.
Unless you mean governments, they do exactly that, they also have a lot of guns.
[quote]Khazad wrote:
But yes, Marx was cool, his ideas are great and relevant. Some of his followers made some mistakes, but it doesn’t matter. The ideology is great, isn’t it?
Show me ONE PLACE where it got a chance and didn’t turn out like that.[/quote]
To the sentimentalist slogans of brotherhood which are here offered us in the name of the counterrevolutionary nations of Europe [including the Slavs], we reply that hatred of Russia was and still is the first revolutionary passion of the Germans; that since the Revolution [of 1848], hatred of the Czechs and Croats has been added to it, and that we, along with the Poles [= good Slavs] and Magyars [= Hungarians], will only be able to secure the Revolution through the most determined terror against these Slavic peoples. . .
Then it’s war. “A ceaseless fight to the death” [quoting the pan-Slavist Bakunin] with Slavdom, which betrays the Revolution, a battle of annihilation and ruthless terrorism – not in the interests of Germany , but of the Revolution.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung, February 1849, Engels
The next world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties but also entire reactionary peoples to disappear from the earth. And that too would be progress.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung, January 1849, Engels
“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Jewry, would be the self-emancipation of our time… We recognize in Jewry, therefore, a general present-time-oriented anti-social element, an element which through historical development – to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed – has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily dissolve itself. In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Jewry”.
Karl Marx, 1843, maybe 1844
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
Yup, those were so noble minded gentlemen, if only their ideas had not been perverted by bad, bad people.
Why do you keep posting Stalinist crimes, Stalinism is STATE CAPITALISM. On the issue of posting pictures of Nazi Germany and asking were there scenes like this in India under British rule.