What we call freedom is totally unromantic. Every time freedom is destroyed, that destruction is done in the name of True Freedom, with capital letters.
No more democratic constitution was ever written than Stalin’s Soviet Constitution of 1936. Every Soviet Republic was given the right to secede. Freedom of speech was guaranteed. Everybody voted in every election. In all the thousands of elections held in Communist countries, there was not one case in which less than 99% of the voters turned out.
North Korea once had an election in which it claimed a 100% turnout!
So every Communist country has Freedom and Democracy. That does NOT mean that you can just do what you want to do. Stalin’s freedom was trumped by Marxist Truth, by True Freedom.
Communism has been called the bastard child of Christianity.
That’s not true.
Actually Communism is the bastard child of Jehovism, not of Christ. The ancient Temple Sanhedrin of Jerusalem, the modern Marxist “theoretician” and the Islamic Imams think exactly the same way.
#1 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/27/2004 - 6:38 pm
Fred Reed expressed my thoughts on this topic quite well, “freedom is incompatible with freedom.” Paul also said in 2 Corinthians 3:17, “where the Spirit of Lord is, there is liberty.” Liberty did not exist in Calvin’s Geneva, or Christ’s Jerusalem, Muhammed’s Medina or Mecca, or Papal Rome, simply because the Spirit of the Lord did not live in the people. Liberty is dying in the US for the same reason.