On 2016-08-11 11:37 PM, Bruce wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> In article > , Bruce
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Just because you don't like communism, doesn't mean this has anything to
>>> do with communism.
>>
>> [No, it doesn't. It is just a important tool in both Communism and
>> Nazism. Rat on your neighbor is a unpleasant byproduct of collectivism.
>
> Ratting on your neighbour is universal. You don't have to be a communist
> to be an asshole.
>
I was raised in the Cold War and we were all taught to think that
communism was bad thing and only had to look at the Soviet Union and
China to see that sort of mentality. Over the years I came to realize
that those people had lived under a number of oppressive regimes and
they already had that mentality. Communism was not the problem in the
Soviet Union. It was the Russians.