is not tantamount to membership in the club of the sociopathic Fundamentalist. 'Sociopathic' I mean advisedly: Those who believe they possess [A God's] ear and mouth: disdain such pedestrian ideas common to most people as, ~ "concern about survival of the species, country, people therein". No sacrifice [for God] can be conceived as Too Large for: obvious reasons. Remember: these.. Know God! (Or Marx, whatever).

We don't know what a "communist" is/believes any more than there is meaning to the phrase, The Murican Peepul IMhO.

Surely there those with this affliction, having deified Marx? Engels, Trotsky, Lenin (their personal caricature of any 1 or 3.. as with the other kinds of Deists - and their personal and individual fantasy icons).

Lumping all together as modern day Thuggees is simply the method of every propaganda ministry looking to preserve the power status quo: propagandize, agitate, demonize.. then exterminate one way or another. Works for M$ too - notice?

My aunt was neither zealot nor Deist - simply an intelligent observer of her times: and of the utter failure of US leadership to even begin policies as could well have commenced... sans the rubric of war [a popular myth, that one - that only WW-II did/could! "save us" from ourselves].

McCarthy era hysteria went vastly beyond putative 'membership' in some [perfectly legal!] cabal *retroactively*. He/it defined such a hydra-headed monster as Americanism and proceeded to decree that even thinking of / reading about 'communism' was er unMurican. Ostrichitis.

This to the extent of subsequently leading to the *firing* of (most of) the Russ/East experts in the State Department.. who had read or studied much beyond Dick and Jane. These *must have been" comsymps: why, that was intuitively obvious! About as wise as Stalin's assassination of his best Generals.

Thus we return: whatever elements of the ideas of Marx et al - as might? apply within some group earnestly willing to attempt great attitudinal changes (esp. about ownership of stuff): are moot in the present developmental stage of our species anyway. (I say this is evident by inspection).

If many were unaware of the thug-like events in USSR then (and many were, we see) - how is this degree of insouciance greatly different from those who 'had faith' in a Dick Nixon (or a Bill Clinton) or.. The Easter Bunny?


Ashton
semantics infests so many topics, y'know?