You know, I’m looking at the two most recent transfers of power in Communist countries — from Fidel to his brother Raul Castro and from Kim Jong Il to his young son — and I’m wondering how I missed the part in the Communist Manifesto where the leaders of the revolution leave their offices to their family members.
The state doesn’t wither much, does it?
October 15th, 2010 | 1:31 pm | #1
Raoul has actually been heavily involved from the beginning, though, so the two cases aren’t quite parallel.
October 15th, 2010 | 7:15 pm | #2
I feel better now.
October 15th, 2010 | 10:35 pm | #3
You would have enjoyed the dialogue I had with a Chinese student who tried to convince me that the PRC was a “democratic dictatorship”, as if such a thing could exist. Surreal.
October 16th, 2010 | 3:08 am | #4
Karl Marx, asserted, remarkably, that communism constituted a social system that would inexorably flow, through certain stages. And, we would inevitably wind up at the “highest stage, communism, after all the hard work, of rebellion, and dictatorship of the prolietariat, had paved the way for it. One wee little problem though. This never materialized.
It’s completely incongruent with human nature, therefore, it has to be forced on others. So it’s understanable, that professed communist dictators would be nepotists, of the most extreme form, because the dictatorship is forced on the people, not elected, and who’s most likely to share the dictators views, to carry on the terror? His son.
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