[Eric]

I personally am an anti-Communist. When I was in my twenties, many years ago, I thought Communism was a great idea. Well, it still is a great idea, but it doesn't take into account human nature (or the sinfulness of mankind, as Christians would say).

It is most interesting that spin, lies, and disinformation over the past decades have meant that an intrinsically anti-German, anti-Semitic country has used the theories of a cerebral German Jewish bourgeois author who sat in a foreign library half of his life and was subsidised to write his stuff by a factory owner who liked champagne and clubs. I'm talking, of course of Russia, Karl Marx and London, Friedrich Engels and Manchester. False consciousness, and all that, to use Communist jargon.

But a further tragedy is that now that Communism is no longer wholly acceptable in Russia, they still use the tune of the old Soviet national anthem, and many people fall for the propaganda spiel that Stalin was really the Father of the Motherland. Stalin, like Hitler, was a foreign import from a smaller country, a man maybe filled with an obsession to dominate the huge country he had now moved to.

Actually, in Britain we have parties that are a little bit fascist (e.g. the BNP), as do many West European countries. If you banned those parties, they would smoulder underground and occasionally cause damage when they got mass votes during, for instance, a recession. That's how Adolf & Co managed to take over Germany in the 1930s. If fascist parties, run by half-educated nutters, are allowed some free rein, they will remain small and laughed at. But there comes a point, when anti-democrats become strong, that they must be stopped. In a democracy, we rely on wise leaders to know when to allow and when to ban.

Hitler was quite openly anti-Semitic in "Mein Kampf". It is about time that Germans read this for themselves in their own language. There should also be far more anti-democratic texts by Stalin, Lenin, and others published in Russian in Russia to show what these men really thought and did. Communism is full of little secret groups of élite people who think they are better than everyone else. They plot to take over from the middle-classes. Actually, most Communist theorists were disgruntled members of those same middle-classes, luring the workers with their theories.