Comments on: Why talking about Communism matters

By: db0

db0 — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:08:14 +0000

I think you're mistaken. There's quite a bunch of mutualists around (some even admins) and there's no banination going on. Certainly you will see how much other people agreed/disagreed with your comment but generally as long as you're not outright advocating statism or capitalism, you don't get downvoted (and I disagree with downvotes even in that case)

OTOH, the FotLL have very little anarchists from the social perspective it seems to me (otherwise you wouldn't have asked me to come and comment on the anti-anarcho-communist thread).

So everything has a bit of a bias, but by neutral I mostly meant a place where the banhammer can't fall just because an admin disagrees with you.

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:35:43 +0000

By the way, reddit is not a "neutral ground." I've been there a few times and it's pretty much communist territory. Very few LLers, MAers or capitalists. In a debate between capitalists and communists, I'd propose the left-libertarian forum as a neutral ground. http://libertarianleft.freeforums.org/index.php

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:31:31 +0000

I`m ready to be challenged. Why else would I be reading your blog? However so far I've found about 95% agreement and very little to disagree about.

By: T_W

T_W — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:06:36 +0000

Conflating Darwin and Communist population control programs? Interesting fail.

By: db0

db0 — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:28:21 +0000

You may be a troll but you talk about a common misconception of the US religious right. So I think you warrant a response, even though you're unlikely to listen.

1) Atheists and Communists are not two different groups of people. Being one does not exclude the other, but nor does it require it. In fact, you'll find a small group of Atheists who are rabidly anti-communists, and you'll also find a majority of them being content with the current system.

However it is true that most Communists are atheists, but that is not because the later causes the former, but because those who are antiauthoritarian generally find the concept of a "Lord" in the sky repulsive. And the lack of evidence towards it does not hurt either.

2) Communists killing 150 million in the last century, I don't know where you get your figures, but to get such numbers you'd have to apply the label of Communist very liberally. In such a case, one can consider that pro-Capitalists have killed about 170 mil.

Of course, counting the dead is not an argument for either system. And of course I refute your liberal application of the label "Communist"

By: dawkinswatch

dawkinswatch — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:23:16 +0000

Well here we are we find the unholy alliance between the Atheists and the communists, despite the fact that communism is responsible for killing 150 million peple in the last century.

I have blamed Charles Darwin for the communist population control programs.