Why Marx? He was a cranky writer from Western Germany. If Marx should be shot for Stalin, the excesses of Medieval Christianity over-qualify Jesus, the Twelve Apostles, and St. Paul for the firing squad, too. Marx's ideas were in relation to his own time, and the historical pattern of Communism as a form of state-building in huge agrarian empires was the direct inverse of what was supposed to happen. Marx's ideas were not evil insofar as they were disproven by the success they attained in real life and never recovered from that paradox. A self-contradictory idea is not evil, it's just nonsense.
Now Lenin and Stalin, sure, I'd agree with that. I might suggest instead of being shot that they be hung, drawn, and quartered along with Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.
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Date: 30/12/11 01:24 (UTC)Now Lenin and Stalin, sure, I'd agree with that. I might suggest instead of being shot that they be hung, drawn, and quartered along with Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.