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His fan-boys have shown [[Denialism|quite a]] [[Negationism|tenacious]] [[No True Scotsman|resistance]] to the suggestion that something might be wrong with what he said, even as leaders professing his philosophy turn into [[dictator]]s one after another, and the combined death toll from their regimes rises into the nine figures. One common response to this is to point out that certain anti-communists also racked up non-negligible skull counts in the name of fighting communism, notably [[Adolf Hitler]], Suharto of Indonesia, and Syngman Rhee of [[South Korea]].<ref>During the [[Korean War]], impoverished farmers were liquidated because they "might" have become communists in the future. Douglas MacArthur considered the matter to be an internal affair of America's anti-communist allies.</ref> Besides being an instance of the ''[[tu quoque]]'', this is also to some degree a [[red herring]], since (1) a much lower proportion of anti-communists racked up a skull count, and (2) of those who did, only ''[[Adolf Hitler|one]]'' reached the one-million mark. | His fan-boys have shown [[Denialism|quite a]] [[Negationism|tenacious]] [[No True Scotsman|resistance]] to the suggestion that something might be wrong with what he said, even as leaders professing his philosophy turn into [[dictator]]s one after another, and the combined death toll from their regimes rises into the nine figures. One common response to this is to point out that certain anti-communists also racked up non-negligible skull counts in the name of fighting communism, notably [[Adolf Hitler]], Suharto of Indonesia, and Syngman Rhee of [[South Korea]].<ref>During the [[Korean War]], impoverished farmers were liquidated because they "might" have become communists in the future. Douglas MacArthur considered the matter to be an internal affair of America's anti-communist allies.</ref> Besides being an instance of the ''[[tu quoque]]'', this is also to some degree a [[red herring]], since (1) a much lower proportion of anti-communists racked up a skull count, and (2) of those who did, only ''[[Adolf Hitler|one]]'' reached the one-million mark. | ||
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| —Irving Berlin[1] |
Karl Marx was the original pinko commie scum, unless you read Ayn Rand, in which case it was Plato, or at least God.
Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto[2] (with Friedrich Engels) and Das Kapital. His ghost subjects Ayn Rand's to eternal wage slavery. That is because he's Satan.
His fan-boys have shown quite a tenacious resistance to the suggestion that something might be wrong with what he said, even as leaders professing his philosophy turn into dictators one after another, and the combined death toll from their regimes rises into the nine figures. One common response to this is to point out that certain anti-communists also racked up non-negligible skull counts in the name of fighting communism, notably Adolf Hitler, Suharto of Indonesia, and Syngman Rhee of South Korea.[3] Besides being an instance of the tu quoque, this is also to some degree a red herring, since (1) a much lower proportion of anti-communists racked up a skull count, and (2) of those who did, only one reached the one-million mark.
It is also widely claimed that Marx was Jewish. This is false. Marx was descended from a long line of rabbis, and he came from a Jewish family, but was converted by his father at age two. He went to become a rabid anti-Semite of the worst kind.
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Footnotes
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=aZpmpt7ksr8C&pg=PA125
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
- ↑ During the Korean War, impoverished farmers were liquidated because they "might" have become communists in the future. Douglas MacArthur considered the matter to be an internal affair of America's anti-communist allies.
