I don't think most anticommunists think the majority was in any way empowered under communism. Honestly there's plenty of people on the left even who don't even think the majority even benefited, much less had any say on the matter
I don’t think most anticommunists think the majority was in any way empowered under communism.
I see libertarians go off on this shit, constantly.
"I just want to be left alone! I just want to be left alone!" right up until they can't get through airport security at which point its "How dare you keep me from co-mingling with 200 other airplane passengers in a large privately owned space!"
Honestly there’s plenty of people on the left even who don’t even think the majority even benefited, much less had any say on the matter
Communism always happens in a vacuum. People are just minding their own business, living normal happy lives, doing their Qigong exercises so they can be in perfect health at 300 years old, and then one day a big guy in a Mao Suit kicks down the door and waves a red book in your face while screaming "We're doing Communism now whether you like it or not!" Then everyone in your country starves to death, communism fails, and a bunch of CATO Institute fellows wring their hands and shake their heads wishing there was something they could have done if they weren't all such die-hard anti-interventionists.
That's how this shit is always presented, historically speaking. We did the American Revolution (good) and then there was a French Revolution (bad) and then an American Civil War (debatable) and then nothing happened for a century. And then WW2 broke out. And then Communism. And now we're at the End of History because Communism Failed. Unless, of course, China decides to team up with Russia to do Communism 2: The Worst One.
That's History In A Nutshell. Everyone knows it, even the stupid leftists who think that maybe the Civil Rights movement didn't go far enough.
I think it's more like:
I don't think most anticommunists think the majority was in any way empowered under communism. Honestly there's plenty of people on the left even who don't even think the majority even benefited, much less had any say on the matter
I see libertarians go off on this shit, constantly.
"I just want to be left alone! I just want to be left alone!" right up until they can't get through airport security at which point its "How dare you keep me from co-mingling with 200 other airplane passengers in a large privately owned space!"
Communism always happens in a vacuum. People are just minding their own business, living normal happy lives, doing their Qigong exercises so they can be in perfect health at 300 years old, and then one day a big guy in a Mao Suit kicks down the door and waves a red book in your face while screaming "We're doing Communism now whether you like it or not!" Then everyone in your country starves to death, communism fails, and a bunch of CATO Institute fellows wring their hands and shake their heads wishing there was something they could have done if they weren't all such die-hard anti-interventionists.
That's how this shit is always presented, historically speaking. We did the American Revolution (good) and then there was a French Revolution (bad) and then an American Civil War (debatable) and then nothing happened for a century. And then WW2 broke out. And then Communism. And now we're at the End of History because Communism Failed. Unless, of course, China decides to team up with Russia to do Communism 2: The Worst One.
That's History In A Nutshell. Everyone knows it, even the stupid leftists who think that maybe the Civil Rights movement didn't go far enough.