[rollei_list] Re: Defnition of true Communism

Peter I think you are absolutely correct here. I do not think there has ever been a Communist state, just a bunch of ruthless totalitarians using the communist promise to get into power - where they then behave like despotic kings. There is less equality in the so called communist states than in the more civilised capitalist democracies.
Frank


On 30 Sep, 2005, at 05:26, Peter K. wrote:

In a sense you are both right. There was a distinction between US Liberalism and that which was found in the UK. But if we were to look at the communism as it was originally thought. Marx and Engels believed revolution inevitable and also believed it was predictable by scientific laws of history. They called their theory "SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM," or COMMUNISM. During the last half of the 19th century the terms socialism and communism were often used interchangeably. Marx and Engels believed socialism as merely an intermediate stage of society in which most industry and property were owned in common but some class differences remained. They reserved the term communism for a final stage of society in which class differences had disappeared, people lived in harmony, and government was no longer needed.

IMO, communism as we see it today is simply a dictatorship hiding behind the term, much like a mask.

Peter K 

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