Why Isn't Communism as Hated as Nazism (Fascism)?

[Chris]

Communism has caused more suffering, but Nazism/Fascism is more hated.





(On the Serious Side.)

[Common Sense]

The racism.

[Chris]

The racism.

"Though Communists claim to be "anti-racist," racism in many Communist countries is very common." @ http://www.conservapedia.com/Communist_Racism. "In Cuba black people were discriminated against by society. In the first three decades of Communist rule, people who have pointed out this problem or exercised any other critic could expect to be tracked and spied on by the Fidel Castro regime. Che Guevara once said that "The $#@!, is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent." Only 9% of the members of the Communist Party of Cuba are black."

And anti-Semitic.

[Crepitus]

"Though Communists claim to be "anti-racist," racism in many Communist countries is very common." @ http://www.conservapedia.com/Communist_Racism. "In Cuba black people were discriminated against by society. In the first three decades of Communist rule, people who have pointed out this problem or exercised any other critic could expect to be tracked and spied on by the Fidel Castro regime. Che Guevara once said that "The $#@!, is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent." Only 9% of the members of the Communist Party of Cuba are black."

And anti-Semitic.

Maybe, maybe not. Either way they never herded everyone of a certain race into gas chambers and murdered them wholesale

[DGUtley]

I think that there's this draw to communism -- the workers paradise, everybody gets all they need, etc. It's been so long since the Cold War, the evils of communism and the barbarism of the communist leaders on full display that the young kids now only see the draw and not the evils. It fundamentally is flawed, but the draw is still there.

Nazi-ism provides no such draw.

[Mister D]

The lesson here is that murdering millions of people because of their ethnic or racial background is worse than murdering millions of people because of their class background, economic circumstances or some other arbitrary category well meaning communists decide is worthy of death,

No, folks, the real lesson here is that leftists are morally retarded.

[Chris]

I think that there's this draw to communism -- the workers paradise, everybody gets all they need, etc. It's been so long since the Cold War, the evils of communism and the barbarism of the communist leaders on full display that the young kids now only see the draw and not the evils. It fundamentally is flawed, but the draw is still there.

Nazi-ism provides no such draw.

Yes, communism on paper sounds so good, but in reality becomes oppressive.

[Chris]

The lesson here is that murdering millions of people because of their ethnic or racial background is worse than murdering millions of people because of their class background, economic circumstances or some other arbitrary category well meaning communists decide is worthy of death,

No, folks, the real lesson here is that leftists are morally retarded.

In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime propagated the unprecedented horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to eradicate an entire people on racial grounds. Yet Stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more people, tens of millions it was often claimed, in the endless wastes of the Gulag. For decades, and even today, this confidence about the difference between the two regimes—quality versus quantity—has set the ground rules for the politics of memory. Even historians of the Holocaust generally take for granted that Stalin killed more people than Hitler, thus placing themselves under greater pressure to stress the special character of the Holocaust, since this is what made the Nazi regime worse than the Stalinist one.

@ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011...o-killed-more/

[Captain Obvious]

The left sympathizes with communism by default because the LWNJ instruction manual tells them so therefore they have to engage in false justification of atrocities committed in the name of communism.

Racism... that's a joke.

[Mister D]

Yes, communism on paper sounds so good, but in reality becomes oppressive.

Class and race served exactly the same function.