Reply #114: I am not one of those people who are calling Chavez............

[NorthELiberal]

a communist........ I simply think he is a loudmouth........


As for the criticism that someone who may be anti-communist has not read Communist works...... that's false...... Their are plenty of people very familiar with different forms of Marxism who simply have not bought into Marxist/commnunist ideology.......... That comes as a surprise to many pro-communists who fal for the ideology hook line and sinker. It's an escape for the pro-communists who do not acknowledge the failures of 20th century communist regimes to accuse non-communists of not being familiar with Marxism. I read Marx in college, and I have many friends from former communist countries who are very familiar with Marx, most of Lenin's work, Trotsky, etc. When people who lived in Communist countries and know what it was like, see these threads, most are simply amused. Pro-communist Americans to them come across as dumb as any Bush voter.