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[EatTheRich]

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1. Slavery (except as punishment for crime) was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the same year the Civil War ended. So unless you are talking about the prison slavery that is ongoing, the slaves were legally free that year.
2. What liberal voted against abolishing slavery in the U.S.? The arguments against slavery made by conservatives in Congress were about “states’ rights,” the “rights of property,” and “federal overreach” ... sound familiar?

 

[EatTheRich]

You mean the atheists Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, and Lenin? Good point, they sewed love and good intention everywhere they went. That butchery of hundreds of millions is a figment of the “wishful imagination”.

Pol Pot was an avowed Buddhist.

Stalin and Mao, though atheists, believed in mystical ideologies of their own ... peaceful coexistence of capitalist and socialist countries, vulgar historical determinism, mechanical materialism, commodity fetishism, parliamentary cretinism, abstract pseudo-dialectics, abstract pseudo-leftism, nationalist mythology, etc. It was precisely their theoretical deviations from the scientific methods of Marxism that allowed them to justify their counterrevolutionary betrayals and the atrocities that went along with them.

Lenin (and Mao) of course used violence in the course of the war of liberation he led. But his violence, though it might arouse the anger of the hypocritical old Kantian, does not shock the conscious of the rational person the same way as the others you mention, because it was well tailored to a rational purpose ... to end the day-to-day violence of hunger, poverty, and capitalist brutality, and create a world that was more peaceful.

 

[RickWA]

Pol Pot was an avowed Buddhist.

Stalin and Mao, though atheists, believed in mystical ideologies of their own ... peaceful coexistence of capitalist and socialist countries, vulgar historical determinism, mechanical materialism, commodity fetishism, parliamentary cretinism, abstract pseudo-dialectics, abstract pseudo-leftism, nationalist mythology, etc. It was precisely their theoretical deviations from the scientific methods of Marxism that allowed them to justify their counterrevolutionary betrayals and the atrocities that went along with them.

Lenin (and Mao) of course used violence in the course of the war of liberation he led. But his violence, though it might arouse the anger of the hypocritical old Kantian, does not shock the conscious of the rational person the same way as the others you mention, because it was well tailored to a rational purpose ... to end the day-to-day violence of hunger, poverty, and capitalist brutality, and create a world that was more peaceful.

Godless mass-butchers that put the balance of humanity to shame in the killing department, no doubt.

 

[EatTheRich]

Godless mass-butchers that put the balance of humanity to shame in the killing department, no doubt.

Once again confirming Voltaire’s point ... religion may be the most pernicious absurdity but as I pointed out it is not the only one.

Anyway, if you lay every starvation death at the feet of the government, and not just that small fraction of starvation deaths that occurred in socialist countries, you’ll find that folks like Nehru make Mao and Stalin look like pikers.