L'Emmerdeur wrote:Forty Two wrote:The Ku Kux Klan disavows violence on its official documents and publications, too.
Inherent in Communism is the violent overthrow of the government.
So you cannot support your assertion that the Communist Party USA "calls for violent overthrow of the American government," and resort instead to generalized mumblings about what's "inherent in Communism" and comparison to the KKK. We know about the KKK's violent actions. Being unable to show any evidence that the Communist Party USA has called for the violent overthrow of the American government, can you at least cite evidence of violent actions taken by its members? You're not covering yourself in glory here, but maybe you can present something that shows you're not talking out of your ass.
We know about Communists' violent actions too. Unless your head is buried in the sand, of course.
And, if you're talking about only specifically the organization named Communist Party USA, well only one group of KKK-ers supported trump.
One of the biggest violent acts involving communists and other far left folks is the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization Riots. This is basic stuff in communism -- they support the "class struggle" and it is understood that the way to throw off the oppressors (aristocracy, bourgeois, etc.) is through violent uprising. They like to throw bricks through windows, set fires, and such, to combat what they oppose: capitalism (which is the free exchange of goods and services at market prices for a profit, and the lawful ownership of private property).
It's not just violent acts -- it's their horrid ideology that makes the communist parties abhorrent to any thinking, rational human being. The policies espoused are oppressive, tyrannical, anti-liberty, anti-freedom, anti-individualism, confiscatory and ultimately totalitarian. Just go to their websites and read what they adhere to. Top on the list of communists' goals is to eliminate the ability of a person to make a profit - they want to make that illegal -- like, you want to bake cookies at a cost of 10 cents each and sell them for 20 cents each, that would be illegal. They want all rents to be paid to the government, and no private landlords - so that vacation rental that you might want to maintain, and use yourself for a couple of weeks in the summer but rent out the rest of the year - nope -- illegal under communism. And, of course, no private property at all, so your home would not be yours, etc. And, they want to seize the property of emigrants and anyone who dissents against the majority. Dissent goes away in communism -- they want to eliminate the lone voice in the sea of majority opinion.
That's basic stuff in communism - not controversial. If you say "that's not communism" -- you're wrong. It's as much communism as "equality for women" is part of feminism.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar