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Blair and his ilk are a strange bastardised hybrid of Thatcher and Marx.

Hmmm...Blair and Marx? Cant really see Marx's place in the hybrid. He's most definitely a Thatcherite however. We're all Thatcherites now.

Indeed. But it’s a very unstable synthesis. Perhaps not even a synthesis at all. The gloss is clearly Thatcherite but beneath that very thin layer still remains the spirit of resentment that drove the early Christians and, later, the Bolsheviks into bloody revolution and destruction of everything that is high and noble. The socialist meme has mutated to survive, to adapt to its surroundings. It now embraces the camouflage of a lamb but the demonic forked tongue is not far away. Blair has done more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe ever did. For damage seen always has a finite life because in the end it can be seen and repaired. But unseen decay and damage can potentially go on forever because one cannot repair something one is not conscious of.

All living beings, unless they achieve an apotheosis, have a life and death cycle. So too do nations. Britain is now a dying nation – her glory days are past. The death-instinct has been activated, and, like a cancer, the nihilist liberals are busy, hell-bent on destroying all forms of health, vitality, strength and power - in short, life – of this nation. Unless we throw ourselves into a fire and become reborn like the Phoenix, we shall decay into the nothingness, the void that is now at the heart of our collective-spirit.

Socialism is not simply an error of thinking – it is a symptom of perennial cancer that threatens to make all equal by make all nothing.

Another Dawkinsian drone, I see.

Another thing: you will never catch a Russian smiling. They are the most miserable people on earth. Should we be surprised, then, to learn that they were the first to succumb to (or, rather, manifest) communism?

I find Richard Dawkins' books to be very enjoyable reading.

Rough, yes, but true nevertheless.

Also, please don't echo the old "the oppression of the individual in Communist countries was only a problem of political practise, not the theory itself" argument. As Popper demonstrated, Marxist political theory is flawed.

1) The BNP is socialist.
2) I am advocating no conscious conspiracy of individuals - socialists are motivated unconsciously by the death-instinct. Like animals, they have no awareness of why they think and feel the way they do.

You commies denying that the USSR was communist is like the American evangelicals denying that Roman Catholicism is Christian. It really is laughable.

So what if they're nationalist? They're still socialists like you.

Now we're onto personal attacks.

Funny, an evangelical can argue exactly the same:

Apart from one is backed up with a whole history of intellectuals (such as Augustine) who have succesfully argued their point, and the other is just a bunch of whacky revolutionaries who discredit everything they dont agree with.

Anyway, with a concept as massively subject as historicism and interpretation of The Communist Manifesto, there are no objective determinants of what makes or doesnt make something truly Communist - hence the massive political/ideological variation within what we lump together as Communism. So if a Communist wishes to dismiss one Communist group as not Communist, then that is a matter of personal belief where the person accepts what (s)he believes as uncategorically true, and hence very difficult argue against - apart from arguing against the basis of their belief in the first place.

Nope.

Of course socialists come in many shapes and sizes - some are vegetarians, others hippies, others nationalistic (Hitler was a national socialist), others internationalist (Lenin). Some smoke and some don't. But they can all legitimately fall under the category of socialist because of their shared views on society and economics, regardless of their other views.

To return to your cousins, the Christians (actually Christianity is more of the mother of socialism than its cousin, but we’ll stick with cousin for the time being), they too have been at war, often bloody, against each other. From the very beginning they were at each other’s throats (there is hardly a single book in the New Testament, for example, that doesn’t attack or slag off a different Christian group), and the Protestant and Catholic wars are well known. And yet there is an irreducible core that they share, that which makes them Christian.

Or take us Europeans – we are different in so many ways and yet there is still an irreducible European core that we all share, despite being at war against each other for the past four millennia.

So, yes, socialists do vary in their beliefs in many areas, but there is an irreducible core, socialism, that connects you all, that you all share, from Marx and Hitler to you.

And I believe that this socialist core is derived from a deeper, unconscious complex, namely what Freud called the death-instinct (I’m in no way a Freudian but I believe he had something with his notion of the death-instinct drive).

As for the death-instinct, have you ever asked why you feel that all people should be equal? Have you ever examined life - do you not see that life is about expansion, growth, vitality, energy, change, and difference? Life changes and becomes different - things become unequal. The weaker forms perish to make way for the higher forms that in turn eventually get replaced by superior forms of life.

Rough, yes, but true nevertheless.

Also, please don't echo the old "the oppression of the individual in Communist countries was only a problem of political practise, not the theory itself" argument

You're in the EU now, my Slovenian friend - time your countrymen put away their spears .

"I don't intend to argue further" our Slovakian friend said. And then he did. I fear that this will not be the last time the slavs deceive now that we've included some of them within our borders...

I fear your comprehension skills are slightly under what one might expect from a native speaker. "arguing further" means to continue arguing the previous point (which was about communism et al). and if you read my post, I am by not mentioning the previous argument at all.

my dear Anglo-Saxon-Franco-Nordic-whatever friend, I pity your sarcasm and arrogance. and even more I pity your thick-wittedness.

and by the way, it's not Slovakian. it's not Slovenian. it's Slovene. enhance your vocabulary now that you've let us inside our borders.