tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post1102297824449495417..comments2024-03-28T20:42:14.758-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Lots of stupid people still like the idea of communism,Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-77337966408470617892012-10-07T13:50:29.293-07:002012-10-07T13:50:29.293-07:00I spent a few months in Angola - nasty!
It wasn&#...I spent a few months in Angola - nasty!<br /><br />It wasn't a poor country, but it had a lot of poor people. An old person was such a rarity (I only ever saw 2 the whole time I was there! I'd see 3 or 4 albinos each day!) that I took their photo.<br /><br />Anywhere that went commie, the life expectancy decreased, the people became public slaves<br /><br />private slaves are valuable to their owner (while all slavery is an abomination, if I had to be a slave, I'd rather be a privately owned slave!)<br /><br />Public slaves - like any "public" property are neglected and mistreated - people look after their own private car, no one looks after the pool car or a hire car.Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-61022143840399033062012-10-07T10:48:35.102-07:002012-10-07T10:48:35.102-07:00I have visited one communist state when I was a te...I have visited one communist state when I was a teenager, Soviet Union, about a decade before it collapsed. I didn't see much and I don't remember much, but what I do remember was mostly just depressing. <br /><br />People who wouldn't talk to you in the same room where the telephone was because they were scared that it might be used to eavesdrop on them. Shops that didn't have much in them, and what there was was mostly crap. Lines, people waiting in lines. Smuggling something like panty hose into the country because that way you could pay a good portion of your travel expenses, as the locals would pay a lot more for items like that than you had to pay back home - and you would have no problems finding the buyers, people would come and ask when they saw you were a tourist. A restaurant where they served the food and the coffee from mismatched tableware, and the coffee cup had a broken and badly glued handle. Not much variety in food, some that was pretty good and served on almost every meal, but it was always the same rather limited selection, and anything else there might be was not particularly appetizing. Grim looking soldiers and military types around, and civilians having the tendency to go pretty quiet when they appeared. Old cars. Very little anything beautiful to be seen, and what there was, buildings, art, was mostly historical, from the time of the Czars. Everything more modern was utilitarian, badly maintained and mostly rather ugly.<br /><br />Can't say the place left me with a good impression. Marjanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-49382500090048882372012-10-07T10:44:33.761-07:002012-10-07T10:44:33.761-07:00Experience and theory has shown that when the &quo...Experience and theory has shown that when the "stabilization" phase begins, the "true believers" will be deep sixed long before thee and me (kulaks, bourgeois, refuseniks etc)<br /><br />They have served their purpose, and will only become bitter anti communists/national socialists/greens when they see what really happens.<br /><br />The state is violence, <br /><br />(a law, any law, even the most menial parking, dog fouling and jaywalking law, is backed up by a credible death threat, without that it is not a law, but advice which can be safely ignored) <br /><br />the only way the state can extend its control to the totality of life - is by increasing the amount of violence it uses - it issues more and more credible death threats and it kills more and more people.<br /><br />I used to be a minarchist (mini statist), I grew out of that.Luton Iannoreply@blogger.com