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Understanding why Communism is Evil

I am surprised every time I hear a conservative or a republican declare that Communism is good in theory but bad in practice. Unfortunately this misunderstanding of what the theory of Communism is about prevails in our society.
The presumption here is that theoretic Communism is an Utopian society which should bring out only the best in humankind and where vices like “greed, envy, materialism, factionalism, classism, sexism, racism etc” are abolished in favor of brotherhood and equality.

In reality the theory of Communism is that “man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work does not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.” (from: For the New Intellectual, by Ayn Rand). Under Communism such concepts as the rights to individual happiness, thought, action, property, etc do not exist.

If your idea of a good and moral Utopia involves the complete lack of individual freedom, individual rights, and individual happiness then you can rationally claim that Communism is good in theory. The purpose of individual rights is to protect human beings from the totalitarian infringement on them by the majority. Communism in theory is truly the ultimate totalitarian system.

Oct 26th, 2005: 13:05:30

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Ayn Rand on WW II

Again and again ARI compares America’s entry into World War II with the invasion of Iraq, and looks to FDR’s generals during World War II for inspiration in conducting the Iraq war.

What did Ayn Rand herself think about America’s involvement in WW II? And for that matter WW I

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