{"id":426,"date":"2005-12-22T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T08:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/12\/22\/the-best-refutation-of-communism-ever\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T08:29:14","slug":"the-best-refutation-of-communism-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200512\/the-best-refutation-of-communism-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The best refutation of communism ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment at Desipundit, Amit Kulkarni provides the best proof that Communism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desipundit.com\/2005\/12\/15\/pro-regulations-vs-pro-free-markets-polarization\/#comment-1731\">as a scientific theory, was false.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yazad, Ravikiran<\/p>\n<p>To address the criticism of you people about Communism, it does not really matter what badge you wear if you are hellbent on killing people either by waging wars or conducting mass genocide, for the sole profit of a few people. In recent memory of last 100-200 years, you could be a &lsquo;Communist&rsquo; or &lsquo;Fascist&rsquo; or &lsquo;Khmer Rouge&rsquo; or &lsquo;Imperial&rsquo; or &lsquo;democratic&rsquo; or &rsquo;socialist&rsquo;. If you can get away with it, you do it. Just because you can. You coincidentially align with the people in power. You change your stripes when necessary. To justify to your unconscious hidden self, and to the public, you lie. It has been clinically proven, if you tell lies consistently, a point comes when you believe your own lies, and it becomes the truth.<\/p>\n<p>It is just pure coincidence that the Communist Soviet Union, Communist China, Communist Khmer Rouge, Fascist Germany, Imperial Japan, etc&#8230; killed 100 million. It could very well have been that if Communism had triumped, all that is &lsquo;democratic&rsquo; would be villified<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment at Desipundit, Amit Kulkarni provides the best proof that Communism, as a scientific theory, was false. Yazad, Ravikiran To address the criticism of you people about Communism, it does not really matter what badge you wear if you are hellbent on killing people either by waging wars or conducting mass genocide, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}