Truthseeker: For one, teachers in Canada are not as bad as U.S., but still horrible. We're given the facts that they want us to have. Look at your civics text book. Two sentances on communism in a 180 page book about government and government history? Zero pages on Americans backing Nazi's? They tell you what they want you to know.
So your infinitely wise comment was that Marxism was not the base of Communist Russia? Oh bravo, should I repeat the '1 plus 1 equals 2' comment?
'That was EXACTLY my point!The ideologies are not applied. Instead, the ideas are twisted!'
That's an infinitely stupid comment. And sounds like a very Christian thing to say. 'No revising from the originator! You cannot change what has already been written!'
Marxist-Leninist theory is REVISED Marxism. That means they CHANGED IT. FOR A REASON. Lenin didn't think Marxism would work (incidentally, Marx didn't think Marxism would work). And besides that, the Manifesto doesn't even tell you how to run the government. It just says what Marx thinks the world is like at the point he wrote it and what he thinks will happen to change it.
You're original comment: 'America has done to democracy what old ussr did to communism'
Note, you used the word 'Communism'. NOT the word 'Marxism'.
Marxism and Communism are not interchangeable words. Only an idiot who hasn't read his communist history or theories would say that Marxism and Communism are the same thing. If you look in the dictionary, the three definitions are as follows:
"1) A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
2) a - A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
b - The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat"
In case you haven't noticed yet, the word Marxist-Leninist is used in there. NOT MARXIST!!!!!
Because COMMUNISM was BASED on MARXIST-LENINIST theory.
You have books to back up that communism wasn't based on Marxism? Are these books by chance entitled 'Tyler Cohen's Grade 7 History Class Notes'??? Because that's when I learned communism was based on Marxist-Leninist theory, not Marxism.
So let me get this straight and then tell you again how brilliant you are. Your comment ("But the democracy put in practice in the US is NOT this democracy. The same the old communism in the USSR...") was basically to say that Communist Russia was not based solely on Marxism and Democratic America was not based solely on Smithism? And you link these by saying thta both nations deviated from the original theories (ignoring that Smith was no where near the first democratical philosopher)?
Like I said, you jumped into a conversation between two physicists and said 'hey, did you know one plus one is two???'
