A Marxist economic system CANNOT FUNCTION--read my lips--CANNOT FUNCTION other than in a political tyranny. A centralized economy must, by definition, have massive control over the behavior of its citizens, and totalitarianism is the inevitable result. Hayak proved that back in the 1940s in "The Road To Serfdom," and it has been proven in practice again and again and again.

There have been NO Marxist regimes that were not political tyrannies. None. Nada. Zip. When you perform an experiment dozens of times--and in the case of nations like Germany, Korea, and Viet Nam the experiments even included controls--and get the same identical results, at some point a clue might begin to work its way in.

This "separation of economics and politics" argument of liberals is as inane as claiming that slavery in the U.S. had nothing to do with racism. Since obviously you can enslave a person of the same race, and many cultures have, the two issues therefore have to be discussed separately and as though they had nothing to do with each other in the Old South.

Eighty million people were murdered by deliberate and official policy of Marxist regimes and yet Marxism is an accepted and even approved philosophical belief among American intellectuals, our media, and the teachers of our children. Yes, I am outraged at this, and the entire Left Wing, trying desperately to avoid looking at the blood on the altar they have worshipped at for over sixty years, is not going to dissuade me from it. I have heard every dumbass apology you can imagine for the crimes of communism, starting in college and up to the present day, and of those that even made semantic sense, none of them impressed me.

When I see communism treated on a college campus in exactly the way fascism* is, I will be content. Or as content as I ever get.

*Also an economic system, by the way. Private ownership, but with strong government control over the means of production. Which, in practice, isn't really private ownership at all in any real sense.