Most people blame expansionist Islam for Christendom’s defensive reaction after 500 years of Muslim conquests.
Authoritarian communism is the only kind of state communism we’ve seen, so I’m not sure why the ideas of Marx aren’t the ideological source for the deaths of a hundred million or more victims under state communist regimes.
Most people blame expansionist Islam for Christendom’s defensive reaction after 500 years of Muslim conquests.
Authoritarian communism is the only kind of state communism we’ve seen, so I’m not sure why the ideas of Marx aren’t the ideological source for the deaths of a hundred million or more victims under state communist regimes.
Actually the Commune of Paris, with its executions of authority figures (religious and secular) and bourgeois hostages was held up as the first example of “the dictatorship of the proletariat” - the concept and the name both from Marx’s own writings.
Most people blame expansionist Islam for Christendom’s defensive reaction after 500 years of Muslim conquests.
Authoritarian communism is the only kind of state communism we’ve seen, so I’m not sure why the ideas of Marx aren’t the ideological source for the deaths of a hundred million or more victims under state communist regimes.
Actually the Commune of Paris, with its executions of authority figures (religious and secular) and bourgeois hostages was held up as the first example of “the dictatorship of the proletariat” - the concept and the name both from Marx’s own writings.