Reply #89: We've had this conversation before... [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

...and yes, I know what communism is supposed to be and how it's supposed to be more democratic, even eventually an anarchist system. I've known communists, read The Communist Manifesto, even seen a couple of the old Sergei Eisenstein propaganda films, all that.

But you can have all the good intentions you want, if it's failed dozens of times and left millions of people in the ground, I don't see why we need to try again (unless you can maybe give us a hint of what you'd do differently beyond "we're gonna be better than them cuz we're for real!"). But it's too late for that because I'm about to go to bed. Just let me say that if the recruiting techniques are what they used to be ten years ago when I was in college (and it's almost always in college that this happens), someone's told you that it's the only way...but I don't think anyone who's pushing a plan that's almost always degenerated into something really bad should be going around saying that unless they're really really really really sure of it, and even if it was, it's a little like saying the only way to get through this three-inch-wide doorway is to flatten yourself with a steamroller...you start to ask yourself if maybe you even need to try.

Anyways...some people give you criticism for the hammer-and-sickle, but I don't give you much, mostly because I know it probably won't last until you graduate anyways, and some of us probably chuckle a little inside and remember when we were going through all that.

Good night, comrade!