IanBishopsHaircut
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May as well go the whole hog and erect a statue of Hitler in St Anne's square
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Friedrich Engels statue
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denislawsbackheel
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Ever tried reading some of his works?
jimharri
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Oh dear. Quick question OP; do you know (without googling it) who Engels was?
IanBishopsHaircut
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Oh dear. Quick question OP; do you know (without googling it) who Engels was?
No I'm completely uneducated
Can I ask if you've ever read the Black Book Of Communism?
remember arthur mann
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Why not ? Least he had the jump on this Globalisation shit !May as well go the whole hog and erect a statue of Hitler in St Anne's square
manctheknife
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A direct line to Stalin......
I'm a centrist and really dislike communism but Engels was a great thinker and the iconic meeting happened in our wonderful Greater Manchester so I'm not fussed.
Marx and Engels obviously didn't have the abuse of communist leaders that ensued in mind. It was the response to incredibly cruel and selfish conditions during the industrial revolution.
Using Hitler as a comparison is ridiculous.
Marx and Engels obviously didn't have the abuse of communist leaders that ensued in mind. It was the response to incredibly cruel and selfish conditions during the industrial revolution.
Using Hitler as a comparison is ridiculous.
jimharri
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No; not recently, but I am aware of it. Basically a catalogue of atrocities carried out by various communist/marxist states. Now, Engels was the driving force behind Marxism (with Marx, obviously). If I remember my history lessons from the stone ages, didn't he spend time in sunny Manchester (google would probably tell me, but that's the lazy way out). Engels was no angel, but it's a stretch to mention him in the same breath as Hitler. What I do agree with you though is that communism, in it's most extreme form, was just as bad as fascism. Both ideologies (again, in their extreme forms) were/are failures.No I'm completely uneducated
Can I ask if you've ever read the Black Book Of Communism?
IanBishopsHaircut
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I'm a centrist and really dislike communism but Engels was a great thinker and the iconic meeting happened in our wonderful Greater Manchester so I'm not fussed.
Marx and Engels obviously didn't have the abuse of communist leaders that ensued in mind. It was the response to incredibly cruel and selfish conditions during the industrial revolution.
Using Hitler as a comparison is ridiculous.
100 million (rough estimate) people killed under communism