I have also been shocked by the outright, and well publicized, admissions of quite a number of MPs, on the left side of our parliament, who have forthrightly either identified themselves as communist, or who admitted having sympathies with present and past communist regimes.
It beggars belief, in the light of the appalling, and well documented, atrocities committed under communism over the past one hundred years, that any sane individual would align themselves with the most murderous and tyrannical ideology the world has ever known.
It is also notable that our media is generally sympathetic, or at least willing to turn a blind eye, to many of the excesses of communist regimes today, and are equally unwilling to counter the extraordinary claims made by their protagonists.
While, at the same time, railing (continually) against the "excesses" of capitalism, and of American capitalism in particular.
And in spite of the fact that migration tends, as has been the case for nearly a hundred years, to be in one direction only!
It is revealing that activists, and educators, in New Zealand should continue to present communism as if it has something to offer to those who have enjoyed the greatest freedom and prosperity ever known in history, but who are often ignorant of this fact, and of the outworkings of all of the alternatives.
I personally know of no secondary schools today that properly educate their students on how quickly tyranny can manifest itself, even in the midst of prosperity.
At school in the late seventies I remember studying the holocaust, and the atrocities of communism, only to encounter university lecturers in the eighties who went very lightly over communist excesses, and who justified communist ideology on the grounds that no-one had actually quite got it right yet, and that it was only a matter of time.
As if it were simply a matter of adjustment here or there.
It is stunning that the excesses of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the killing fields, and the cruel deaths of one hundred million people at the hand of communist dictators, receive such little attention. The excesses of the holocaust are well known (although even these are fading), those of communism remain largely hidden. The writings of Solzhenitsyn are unknown to two generations now.
Communism, and fascism, are both the natural ourworking of an ideology that exalts the collective over the individual, brutally subsuming the rights of the latter into the former, and of one group over another ... sound somewhat familiar?
Human beings have surprisingly short memories, and freedom is cheap when you have not had to work for it, when you are ignorant of the facts, when you have a secondary agenda, or when you want a shortcut to something someone else has.
Cultivate envy and you will find communism just around the corner.
While many are well meaning, we should be suspicious of those for whom socialism could, intended or incidentally, be a back door to a potential worst nightmare. Communism wears many disguises, and most people didn't think it would ever happen to them, or were wholly ignorant of its outworkings.
When you expose it to the light it casts a very very long shadow indeed.
If I were Minister of Education I would mandate that the excesses of communism, and fascism (ultimate bedfellows), were taught to every secondary school student in New Zealand.
Communism is not a thing that can only ever happen somewhere else, and when it has taken root it holds on for dear life.
I heard recently that an "Excesses of Communism" museum has been opened in the United States ... not a bad idea.
It takes little imagination who would turn up to protest on opening day.
Caleb Anderson, a graduate history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over thirty years, twenty as a school principal.
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What is the old saying?
People will vote their way into Communism (Socialism) but they always have to fight their way out.
And as we saw not long ago, totalitarian rule is easy to put in place, and should be a wake-up call
The politics of envy has a great desire for power, not just for wealth.
You just have to look at those espousing such views. They see themselves as the elite, the ones that will drive this utopia. Historically this group does very well out of communism. They ensure they are a bit more equtthan others.
As for the media support, they also feel they would be protected and rewarded for being the propaganda arm of the more equal group.
It is the poor and middle class that gets killed. The poor - who actually cares if they go. The middle - they are educated and dangerous, so they need to go.
PS Of course, this time Communism is re-packaged as
" cultural marxism." - starting with Ardern.
In 1952 when I was 6 growing up Jewish in L.A., my mother called me in from play to watch, on our tiny B&W TV the first movie footage showing of the liberation of Auschwitz. When it was finished, my mother looked deep into my eyes and said "Just because we live in the U.S.A. don't think it can't happen here." Yeah, that's something I'll never forget. And that Hitler was elected by the sheeple of Germany.
Not forgetting, of course, that socialism is communism without the intestinal fortitude.
I think of communism as a form of feudalism. Look up a diagram showing the structure of a feudal society, substitute 'central communist party' and 'communist party officials' for such labels as 'monarch' and 'lords', and you have a diagram showing the structure of a communist society.
Aside from a happy and useful education, I was fortunate enough to be posted in the RAF to a place called Berlin where I completed some 5 years. That completed my education I think because no-one with half a brain would want what we saw on the other side of that wall! In those days Bernauer Strasse was a living monument to what that regime was capable of. Many years later, we got to know a chap who ran a German restaurant in Tanunda South Australia. That man had escaped after having been subjected to much coercion and indoctrination. One day we got him to open up about it all. We were in tears as he recounted his tale ... and these idiots want this for their familied, give me bloody strength!
Real communist states would refer to these self-confessed politicians in the west as "useful idiots".
I refer to them as "useless idiots" but that's just semantics.
The question is: when will the NZ sheeple realize that this is happening under the nose? And when /if they do, will it be too late?
Yes, neo-feudalism, back to the haves and have nots, hence the attack on the middle class.
We criticise the German population for buying into Joseph Goebbels propaganda. Are we so different when the majority succumb to the corrupt MSM’s daily commitment to shaping public opinion? Im appalled at what they get away with without being taken to task or closed down.
MSM is a portfolio directly under National within the coalition. First Melissa Lee, now Paul Goldsmith. I have asked Luxon - at least 6 times - why they permit the daily denigration of the Coalition by the biased MSM to continue. Reform efforts are moving very slowly and so the damage continues. Why? ACT now takes its own media team to meet the press gallery to ensure accurate reporting.
Control the media, and you control the people.
As recognized by Goebbels, Stalin, Mao, Ardern et al.
Where do you think that Ardern was leading NZ after running the Young British Communists ?
And Jacinda Ardern was the president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.
Have you forgotten about the time that she was recorded on the stage at the communists rally in Hungary going " Comrades " seven times raising thd Red Flag ?
Was she governing NZ with thd help of the Watermelon Party ( Green on the outside, but Socialist Red on the inside) ?
Let's be very clear about her intentions - she envisioned a Communist NZ with some of the apparatchiks being Maori radicals.
Don't believe any of the sweet nothings she wrote in her book - look beyond that to her final objectives.
Caleb, please advise who these left mps are that are, or have sympathy for communists.
One might ask whether Luxon has assumed her mantle given the enthusiasm and pace with which he helps to advance Maorification.
Can I add " to the litany of comments" - That the "West" has never understood, even now does not wanted to to understand Russia.
It is a Country "over there".
The History from 1916-1917 with the rise of Socialist activity that had a connection to the First World War and the growing lack of sympathy with the Tsar and associated kindred that created the beginning of a Country, that subdued many of the people across that land and the rise of "clique" who assumed power and used it with a vengeance.
It was Lenin who sort to spread "the words" looking for the world (Germany first) to join the " Communist Movement" to enact change.
It is interesting that Stalin, stood at Lenin's shoulder and was involved in many of the purges across Russia.
What Stalin achieved at the conclusion of WW2 is an interesting study of suppression, violence that spread across the World so did the concepts of Socialism, history shows, who, how and where.
It is interesting just how many Academics, then and still do -
"embrace Socialism" and now doubt "teach the philosophy's of that world domain" along with the writings of Lenin & Marx.
Socialism - look at Africa and the many Countries that accepted Russian aid, weapons etc and in some cases the Leaders of certain Countries were educated at The University of Moscow.
South Africa is a case when Socialism goes wrong.
If I said that Worker's Unions, as we know them now, came from a Russian activity stated by the Red Army in 1917? - yes, believe it - it is documented and was a "mantra" taken up especially in England (e.g. Coal Miners) and then across the World.
Here in NZ we had Leaders of the Federation of Labour who had strong links with Russia.
Vladimir Putin grew up in Russia, became KGB Agent in East Germany and when interviewed after becoming the President (first time) in Russia admitted that " he pined for the loss of the USSR and if given a chance he would resurrect that 'empire' again.
Ukraine, is but a stepping stone in that direction and there are people in Ukraine who would "welcome Russia back".
Putin said no such thing. Workers trade unions long preceded the Russian revolution.
Very interesting documentary series (9 episodes) on Netflix, for those who are interested: Turning Point - The Bomb and The Cold War
Russias war blood upon the snow in ten parts was worth watching
I think this posting is a lot of nonsense, as are all the sympathetic comments. There’s plenty things in this country and around the world that are far more pressing than communist expansion. Hasn’t it been noticed that communism took a gigantic hit in 35 years ago, and its shown no sign of any serious recovery.
And yet again Rob Beechey puts the two words, ‘corrupt MSM’ in succession in his response, comparing our media to Goebbels propaganda, and wonders why our ‘corrupt’ outlets haven’t been ‘closed down’. What media outlets is he referring to? Which ones are corrupt?
Corruption is a very far-reaching word, and it is insulting to the public to claim that we are suckers to fall for it. Today, in the age of the internet when virtually every news outlet, with their faults, prejudices and diversity, is literally at our figure tips, is as free as it has ever been. The public in a free country, as the public is quite capable of sifting the wheat from the straw.
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