Just watched the definition of communism, and learned about what happened to my people. My Russian, Hungarian and Slovenian family. How the hell is this not more mainstream? How the hell did Lenin kill 8+ million, Stalin 40 million (not counting soldiers) and Mao killing 40 mil and no one talks about it. My family didn’t even tell me. This is insane. I am going down this rabbit hole and I don’t care where it leads. Time for me to learn about the dictators that hurt my family. Sorry about the venting, are there others I need to study. I am getting the black book of communism, what else do I need to read or see?
Help me down this rabbit hole pedes.
Thank you thank you thank you! I regret I have only 1 upvote to give. It is amazing to me how so much of this ties in together.
No problem. Did you know the Romans expelled the Jews from Rome 3 times in their history? The reason was always because the Jews kept disrupting Roman culture by pushing their own culture on everyone else.
If you look back on Greek/Roman history, you'll see a lot of parallels to what is going on today. I love this Cicero quote:
That quote seems to highlight a lot of the problems with regard to how people have taken the good nature of others wanting to help the less fortunate in society toward essentially enslaving us all to continue to produce only to enhance the wealth of the elite. This problem seems to be one that has existed for thousands of years.
That's a common theme you'll run into if you deep dive into the history of society and understand the modern problems. All our problems today are problems spoken to thousands of years ago. Even the issue of feminism gets brought up. I remember reading a book published in the 1500s, written by a famous Italian courtier and he discusses how women are as capable as men in work but that women choose the role of mother and homemaker because it's better for society as a whole. He goes into some writing about how this role women have is a very much needed role and it's a good thing men and women have different roles etc... because together, given their different roles, society functions better than if women tried to be like men. I just thought it was interesting to see how in the 1500s this is how men thought. It's how I think now today myself.
Clearly a lot of the solutions to modern problems were actually recognized in history. It just seems we never learned from our history, almost as if forces at play have specifically tried to deceive us from the truth. One example of that is the Bible itself. I was never really religious but then one day I sat down and read the bible and realized there's more wisdom in that book than probably the whole sphere of psychology and sociology. We've tried so hard as a society to ignore the wisdom in the bible and makeup our own truth in these social sciences but all we've appeared to have accomplished is lead ourselves to our own destruction while ignoring the obvious truth that the bible prescribes regarding the proper morality of a society to be successful.
Everything is so tied together... it's honestly like humanity hasn't changed 1 bit in thousands of years and we're just locked in this continuous struggle of good vs. evil.