Okay I will play.


Quote Originally Posted by JAG
1) There is no such thing as being 'inherently bad'.
Maybe - maybe not.

2) Prove why it would have been 'someone else'.
Were any of the other leaders of the USSR truely any better then Stalin in how they used their power. They might of killed less people for crimes against the state - but the history of the USSR shows that there was some potential even with another leader then Stalin of massive crimes against humanity on their own citizens by the rulers of the USSR. Would they have gone to the extremes that Stalin did - well that is questionable.

3) Show how communism has caused more deaths through history than any other form of government. Let it be your beloved fascism, other forms of dictatorships or capitalism.
Oh lets just throw some figures out there.

Lenin - had by direct means a lot of people killed - and by indirect means caused the death of many more. I am not going to look up the sites - but the number of people killed on Lenin's orders exceed 1,000,000. If you throw in the governmental caused famine - the number grows even larger very quickly.

Then there is Stalin - figures vary from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 killed on his orders. Depending on who's data your looking at. This is not counting the soldiers killed fighting the Nazi's.

Pol Pot - over 1,000,000.

North Korea - unknown how many.

Communist China - again unknown how many - but estimates place it at a greater number then Stalin's purges.

Facism runs a close second compared to those killed by communism - and you have to include the war figures to get them as high as the numbers killed in the name of communism.

4) Show how communism is an 'evil ideology'.
I would think it was perfectly clear. Just read Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. It set the conditions for the corruption. Power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely.

For someone with views such as you do, plus stating they are a fascist and seemingly worships Germany during WW2, you are skating on thin ground when you go around declaring others anything to do with evil.
Yep good point.