tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5808364797495259415..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Just try thinkingHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-45107594561304632832011-04-30T11:05:16.361+01:002011-04-30T11:05:16.361+01:00Whoever Guest is: the story is true, only Conquest...Whoever Guest is: the story is true, only Conquest added the f-word before the word idiots. Richly deserved, in my opinion.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-14226846290521772132011-04-30T01:32:41.718+01:002011-04-30T01:32:41.718+01:00The thing is, it's not even just the Soviet Un...The thing is, it's not even just the Soviet Union--*everywhere* communism has been tried, it has led to appalling death tolls. Even if, by some chance, it's not something inherent in communism that leads to such casualty figures, but that instead communism keeps getting "hijacked," the apologists for communism at this point should be thinking long and hard about just *why* it is that communism keeps getting "hijacked" in precisely the same way each and every time it's been implemented. <br /><br />I read Conquest's <i>The Great Terror</i> as well as Tzouladis's <i>The Forsaken</i>. Pretty chilling reading. It's kind of mind-boggling to me that communism still *has* apologists in this day and age.colagirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-44542291114783413562011-04-29T00:57:20.000+01:002011-04-29T00:57:20.000+01:00The BBC promoting capitalism? Please!!!!The BBC promoting capitalism? Please!!!!Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-18149362098566681962011-04-28T22:35:17.000+01:002011-04-28T22:35:17.000+01:00It is incredible how many apologists for communism...It is incredible how many apologists for communism there still are, many tacitly.<br />And to help people think, they should read Milton and Rose Friedman's 'Free to Choose',<br />still one of the best exposes about capitalism, which is generally so misunderstood.<br />It would be useful if the television series of same were repeated, esp. at the present time<br />when the recession is also so often misinterpreted. Of course, fat chance of the BBC doing so.Archimedesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-13270227295224327182011-04-29T12:47:38.759+01:002011-04-29T12:47:38.759+01:00There's a story that when one of Conquest'...There's a story that when one of Conquest's books was being revised and re-issued in the post-USSR era, someone asked him if he wanted to change the title, and his suggestion was to call the new edition "I told you so, you idiots"<br /><br />I do hope it's true. It deserves to be true, and Conquest deserves our undying respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-22845800514175575002011-04-29T12:47:18.761+01:002011-04-29T12:47:18.761+01:00There's a story that when one of Conquest'...There's a story that when one of Conquest's books was being revised and re-issued in the post-USSR era, someone asked him if he wanted to change the title, and his suggestion was to call the new edition "I told you so, you idiots"<br /><br />I do hope it's true. It deserves to be true, and Conquest deserves our undying respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-61345895156840847832011-04-29T12:47:01.045+01:002011-04-29T12:47:01.045+01:00There's a story that when one of Conquest'...There's a story that when one of Conquest's books was being revised and re-issued in the post-USSR era, someone asked him if he wanted to change the title, and his suggestion was to call the new edition "I told you so, you idiots"<br /><br />I do hope it's true. It deserves to be true, and Conquest deserves our undying respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com