Authored by Eric Utter via American Thinker,
Most of us have heard the horrific figures: Communism/Marxism was responsible for more than 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone.
There are two preconditions necessary for people to accept or even welcome Communism: one, frustration with current economic and/or political conditions, and two, a moral decay that generates a disdain for work and an excessive entitlement mentality that demonizes others' success, accomplishments, and wealth. For far too many, this demonization of what others have leads not unto desire to make the right decisions and work hard enough to earn it yourself, but unto envy, greed, wrath and sloth, four of the Seven Deadly Sins. And a demand that much of what others' have be confiscated and handed over to one's self and one's demographic group...without one having to work for it. This, as history clearly shows, is an automatic death sentence for a society. Every time. In every case. Whether it be the erstwhile Soviet Union, its satellite in Cuba, Pol Pot's Cambodia, or, more recently, previously wealthy Venezuela.
It could not possibly be otherwise. If I work hard, say, for 60-hour weeks, and I and my family are not going to be very appreciably better off than someone who is unemployed and able to sit on his couch all day because of my tax money, it would literally be immoral, as well as against human nature, for me to continue to do so. Why? Because I would not only be allowing the excessive and arbitrary taxation of my earned labor, while robbing myself of preci
