it’s often talked about but rarely
understood welcome to watchmojo.com it
we’re counting down our picks for the
top five most revealing facts about
communism this probably won’t be
anything new to serious students of
history but for the average person these
facts oughta shine a new light onto the
so-called red devil number five its main
principles were established by Karl Marx
19th century philosopher Karl Marx
founded Marxism a socio-economic system
in which class and state are abolished
its tenants were outlined in the
communist manifesto a pamphlet
co-written by Marx and Friedrich Engels
that detailed the steps the nation would
have to take in order to become
self-sustaining in the 160 plus years
since the publication Marxism has given
way to communism and socialism which are
the main political implementations of
the Marxist philosophy because they are
governing systems the original ideas of
Marxism have been tweaked fit their
respective agendas which is
counterintuitive since true Marxism is
the absence of government due to this
mistreatment of ideals communism has
mutated into a brutal dictatorship while
socialism is considered communism ‘s
easy-going cousin a tuition is free in
many of those countries excellent they
have excellent childcare strong
retirement benefits they’re often very
strongly pro-environment taking on
climate change it’s still considered
troublesome by many but with more
safeguards and individual rights i
guarantee these people have never been
to a socialist country i’ve been to a
socialist country right fine we’re right
right number four the Cold War was a
result of capitalism and communism
clashing the US and the USSR were allies
in World War two they worked together to
take down Hitler and the Holocaust and
bring temporary peace to earth because
Germany Italy and Japan were defeated
and the majority of Eurasia was in ruins
America and the Soviet Union became the
world’s superpowers responsible for
cleaning up the residual mess and
restoring order to the displaced
countries they shared custody of the
remaining war-torn nations but because
of their government’s conflicting
ideologies locked horns on how they were
to be run I can no longer sit back and
communist infiltration communist
indoctrination communist subversion
before you knew it we’ll also being
builds deals were being broken and
countries were being invaded
from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in
the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has
descended across the continent by the
late 40s the two were sworn enemies and
the promise of mutually assured
destruction resulted in nearly 50 years
of tension but now they’re totally
besties America loves Vladimir Putin
number three the Red Scare turned
artists into enemies it is necessary to
investigate before legislating but the
line between investigating and
persecuting is a very fine one and the
junior senator from Wisconsin has
stepped over it repeatedly
communism is anti-capitalist the sort of
consumeristic bliss that America started
vibing on after World War Two was
completely incompatible with the weird
egalitarian austerity that Soviet Russia
was rocking and so communism was
vilified in American political discourse
enter Senator Joe McCarthy who in the
40s and 50s manned a witch hunt to find
and punish American citizens who were
considered pro-communist suddenly he can
present a bill for such services after
all we are not coming that came to mean
anyone who is anti-war anti-segregation
liberal leaning or ideologically
different in any way and of course who
better to negatively influence Americans
than artists so McCarthy’s house on
American Activities Committee took a
special interest in them few were jailed
but many more were blacklisted from
working in the entertainment industry we
will not walk in fear one of another
we will not be driven by fear into an
age of unreason if we dig deep in our
history and our doctrine these included
Hollywood legends like Lloyd Bridges
Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin I don’t
want to rule or conquer anyone I should
like to help everyone if possible Jew
Gentile black man white we all want to
help one another human beings are like
that number two it’s idyllic in theory
but pretty rough in practice the purest
form of communism is without government
and
it is utopia where everybody works for
each other everybody feeds each other
and everyone is self governed we don’t
need the government telling us how to
run our industry a person does not have
to worry about inequality poverty or
hunger as his fellow man we’ll help him
out and in turn he will help his fellow
man for the greater good of everyone
really what seems pretty good however no
country has ever succeeded in pulling
this off possibly because humans are
inherently selfish and greedy greed for
lack of a better word is good greed is
right greed works instead the world has
had mostly tyrannical regimes under the
guise of communism regimes where despite
whatever positive things may have come
with them hundreds of millions of
civilians starved will work to death in
labor camps and were systematically
executed in great purges carried out
ironically for the greater good number
one communism helped and hurt the civil
rights movement in America in theory
communism believes in racial equality as
such the communist party was significant
in defending and promoting civil rights
for African Americans lobbying for
desegregation unionized workers and
voting rights many African Americans
join the Communist Party in fact in the
1940s one black Communist Benjamin J
Davis jr. was elected to New York City
Council before being ousted and jailed
for being a communist the association
with communism eventually hurt the civil
rights movement though there was a time
during the Cold War when anyone who
spoke of equality whether communist
affiliated or not was deemed
anti-american everyone’s right it’s
America we just can’t do it at that
unreasonable expanse of all of us cuz
that becomes on America some historians
speculate Cold War had never happened
and the word equality hadn’t gotten such
a bum rap civil rights would have been
granted a lot earlier we hold these
truths to be self-evident that all men
are created equal so what do you think
of communism can it ever live up to its
lofty ideals for more glorious
revolutionary top tens and blacklisted
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com soldiers in the name of
democracy let us all unite
you
understood welcome to watchmojo.com it
we’re counting down our picks for the
top five most revealing facts about
communism this probably won’t be
anything new to serious students of
history but for the average person these
facts oughta shine a new light onto the
so-called red devil number five its main
principles were established by Karl Marx
19th century philosopher Karl Marx
founded Marxism a socio-economic system
in which class and state are abolished
its tenants were outlined in the
communist manifesto a pamphlet
co-written by Marx and Friedrich Engels
that detailed the steps the nation would
have to take in order to become
self-sustaining in the 160 plus years
since the publication Marxism has given
way to communism and socialism which are
the main political implementations of
the Marxist philosophy because they are
governing systems the original ideas of
Marxism have been tweaked fit their
respective agendas which is
counterintuitive since true Marxism is
the absence of government due to this
mistreatment of ideals communism has
mutated into a brutal dictatorship while
socialism is considered communism ‘s
easy-going cousin a tuition is free in
many of those countries excellent they
have excellent childcare strong
retirement benefits they’re often very
strongly pro-environment taking on
climate change it’s still considered
troublesome by many but with more
safeguards and individual rights i
guarantee these people have never been
to a socialist country i’ve been to a
socialist country right fine we’re right
right number four the Cold War was a
result of capitalism and communism
clashing the US and the USSR were allies
in World War two they worked together to
take down Hitler and the Holocaust and
bring temporary peace to earth because
Germany Italy and Japan were defeated
and the majority of Eurasia was in ruins
America and the Soviet Union became the
world’s superpowers responsible for
cleaning up the residual mess and
restoring order to the displaced
countries they shared custody of the
remaining war-torn nations but because
of their government’s conflicting
ideologies locked horns on how they were
to be run I can no longer sit back and
communist infiltration communist
indoctrination communist subversion
before you knew it we’ll also being
builds deals were being broken and
countries were being invaded
from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in
the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has
descended across the continent by the
late 40s the two were sworn enemies and
the promise of mutually assured
destruction resulted in nearly 50 years
of tension but now they’re totally
besties America loves Vladimir Putin
number three the Red Scare turned
artists into enemies it is necessary to
investigate before legislating but the
line between investigating and
persecuting is a very fine one and the
junior senator from Wisconsin has
stepped over it repeatedly
communism is anti-capitalist the sort of
consumeristic bliss that America started
vibing on after World War Two was
completely incompatible with the weird
egalitarian austerity that Soviet Russia
was rocking and so communism was
vilified in American political discourse
enter Senator Joe McCarthy who in the
40s and 50s manned a witch hunt to find
and punish American citizens who were
considered pro-communist suddenly he can
present a bill for such services after
all we are not coming that came to mean
anyone who is anti-war anti-segregation
liberal leaning or ideologically
different in any way and of course who
better to negatively influence Americans
than artists so McCarthy’s house on
American Activities Committee took a
special interest in them few were jailed
but many more were blacklisted from
working in the entertainment industry we
will not walk in fear one of another
we will not be driven by fear into an
age of unreason if we dig deep in our
history and our doctrine these included
Hollywood legends like Lloyd Bridges
Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin I don’t
want to rule or conquer anyone I should
like to help everyone if possible Jew
Gentile black man white we all want to
help one another human beings are like
that number two it’s idyllic in theory
but pretty rough in practice the purest
form of communism is without government
and
it is utopia where everybody works for
each other everybody feeds each other
and everyone is self governed we don’t
need the government telling us how to
run our industry a person does not have
to worry about inequality poverty or
hunger as his fellow man we’ll help him
out and in turn he will help his fellow
man for the greater good of everyone
really what seems pretty good however no
country has ever succeeded in pulling
this off possibly because humans are
inherently selfish and greedy greed for
lack of a better word is good greed is
right greed works instead the world has
had mostly tyrannical regimes under the
guise of communism regimes where despite
whatever positive things may have come
with them hundreds of millions of
civilians starved will work to death in
labor camps and were systematically
executed in great purges carried out
ironically for the greater good number
one communism helped and hurt the civil
rights movement in America in theory
communism believes in racial equality as
such the communist party was significant
in defending and promoting civil rights
for African Americans lobbying for
desegregation unionized workers and
voting rights many African Americans
join the Communist Party in fact in the
1940s one black Communist Benjamin J
Davis jr. was elected to New York City
Council before being ousted and jailed
for being a communist the association
with communism eventually hurt the civil
rights movement though there was a time
during the Cold War when anyone who
spoke of equality whether communist
affiliated or not was deemed
anti-american everyone’s right it’s
America we just can’t do it at that
unreasonable expanse of all of us cuz
that becomes on America some historians
speculate Cold War had never happened
and the word equality hadn’t gotten such
a bum rap civil rights would have been
granted a lot earlier we hold these
truths to be self-evident that all men
are created equal so what do you think
of communism can it ever live up to its
lofty ideals for more glorious
revolutionary top tens and blacklisted
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com soldiers in the name of
democracy let us all unite
you
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