A true revolutionary of the Left, as you are, would not blink an eye at ravaging the nation with fire and sword to erase the foundations to pave the way for a better world.

That’s poetically expressed, Ymarsakar. You’re mixing metaphor, but I like the proximity of eye with ravaging.

All those countries that quickly fell were not initiated by Russia, they were already there and Russia just did what they needed to do to allow it to happen.

We need look no further than home – how far has one party come on the idea of “fairly taxing the rich”? How far has that party come by saying they want to federalize a large number of private industries to make things “fair”. How far has that party gone by talking about how the Rich are riding on the backs of the poor and taking what the poor should truly have.

Go read Marx and it is *exactly* what he wrote, then go read those people he quotes and it is, again, *exactly* the same ideas. All that talk resonates within a large part of our electorate, yet if they simply replaced rich with bourgeoisie and poor with proletariat those same people would instantly realize it was marxist ideas being trotted out and rebel against them. Marx understood that making sound new and exciting would get rid of most of the dislike people had for the ideas and *that* was mostly all he did.

Sergey is correct, and all it took was to simply update the terms to one that normal Americans use and the same old class warefare is back complete with all the wedges being driven in the same places they have for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Just now it is “progressive” and will work (just as people thought it was this brand new shiny stuff called socialism and communism and would now work when Marx updated the language to his time)! It’s never worked and never will, no matter how much one updates the terms to make it sound not like the old failed ideas.

Without the Bolsheviks, and their allies in the West, socialism/marxism might have fizzled out as an obviously unworkable idea (which it is); without Soviet propgaganda, their military, Soviet puppets like Castro and the army of dizinformatzioncheks, obedient to Moscow, Marxism might have quietly withered away.

Dostoevsky might have dissected socialist ideas, but his dissection didn’t do much to stop Lenin, Stalin or the KGB.

(Ya know, I always thought that Thomas Mooore had kinda a shifty look in his eyes from his Holbein portrait! Ayup, ayup, Moore invented socialism! The 20th Century was his fault! Who’da thunk?)

Yah. Right.