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Originally posted by Hanxter
definition of communism...
a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a stateless society
definition of pacifism...
is a personal rejection of war and violence, It is the rejection of one's participation in any act of violence by refraining from emotional, psychological, physical and verbal violence, pacifists reject war in all forms and rejects the notion of the "just war"
"and verbal violence" - and isn't that what you're doing?
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Simply as an aside, those may be your definitions but they are not mine. A communist society, as Marx taught, is actually incompatible with the existence of a state at all, once the higher communism is created by the proleteriat. Communism simply means "to each what she needs, from each what he can give"
And to me pacifism means that is wrong to fight except in self defence.
And what I see on this board is simply that anything that comes from some perspectives is censored.
If you look through the politics board, you wont find one example of me personally attacking anyone, but you will find constant personal attacks made by people against me - and yet I am blamed because I have opinions that apparently incite people to attack me so it is my fault. Here is the freedom of speech then.
What makes me feel unwelcome here isnt really that I find this unfair, I mean I could easily try to enjoy the rest of the board and just ignore the politics... what makes me feel sad is things that seem self evident to me (ie - my beliefs about what America is doing in Fallujah) are apparently considered by the people who run this board to be so outlandish that I must just be "flame baiting" or whatever they choose to call it. What I feel in my heart is apparently so ridicolous it is not worthy of discussion,,, I really look at the way this site is run and feel like we are from two different worlds. It does make me angry because I cant see how people can be so complacent, and so uncaring.
So I am going to pravda forum instead to talk about politics... about 50% of the political posters there are EXTREME anti semites, people who deny the holocaust, who blame Israel for 9-11 and just about everything else, people who openly wish for the destruction of zionism and Israel... sometimes it isnt so much fun but at least I can talk about how I feel there without knowing everything I say can be edited or closed just because my opinions are a way to the left of most others.