08-25-2012, 12:35 AM
(08-25-2012, 12:09 AM)Ashock Wrote: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einsten.I remember this philosophy FIT described was the same logic the Bolsheviks professed prior to coming to power.
After they got in power the infighting began, but they labelled them, and had the secret police keep an eye on them. Then, they arrested them for any slight violation, and sent them off to re-education camps, which were administered by Gulag. After a while, they just didn't pretend anymore and shot them outright. It's less of a burden on the state, and more humane than starving them to death. (see NKVD Order No. 00447).
Individual liberty is antithetical to communism. Once you surrender your power, life, and property to the state. They are free to do with it as they please. Why would it surprise us from a system where you own nothing, not even your own your life.