Why I No Longer Feel Comfortable Wearing a Poppy

[Geckos48]

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/madeleine-fry/poppy-day_b_4169581.html

very eloquently put. Exactly how I feel about the whole debacle.

November 11th should be for those who selflessly gave their lives in the World Wars, not those who chose to fight dubious campaigns abroad.

Great post ltEve

Does Stalin have 'nothing to do with Marx' too?

Honestly. I'm actually gobsmacked.

I keep leaving but have a strange fascination with the thread, it gets more surreal every time I look!

I second (Third? Fourth?) the call for a 'like' button for all of LteEves posts!

I found this article about Karl Marx interesting OP.

Honestly, read it. Its only about 1500 words, available online.

Me too SatinSandals!
It just keeps reeeeeeling me back in.

I'm interested in YOU justifying yourself OP.

CM published waaaay before any of the world wars had even begun.
I'm still waiting for you to explain how this new world order of peace could have been established post 1945

Oh dear God. When communism fails, as it did in Bosnia, it leads to war, it leads to Genocide and it leads to death. What ARE you on?

What ARE you on?

Most of us would like to know that!

One of the comments on the article about Marx I linked to:

"No one cares how many his ideas killed and the people who believe them are too stupid to listen or understand your arguments anyway."

Communism has never been 'done' properly.

I wonder how many have died as a result of Capitalism?

Anyway, Communism is not a dirty word :)

Not building Israel would have been a good way of not causing loads of trouble, using the new-found connections to support each other.

There is Much we could have done. Waging wars everywhere was not the answer (I am amazed people think it is)

Communism (or rather Marxism) is not about dictatorship.

Marx's ideas did not kill people, evil barstards killed people. Honestly read it, dont read something about his work, actually read it. Its only 1500 words long. Around a half hour/hour of your life.

It gets more and more laughable as it goes on!
I think Gecko needs a crash course in history, and not just the parts she cherry picks to suit her beliefs.

"Communism has never been 'done' properly."

Many believe that's because it can't be.

I will read it if you read MrsGSR's link, which I don't believe you have looked at.

Oh my lord.

I haven't bought a poppy yet. The ops posts are making me want to at the first possible moment.

Yes I did read it, it was not about Communism.

And this forum has a reputation for being full of Lefties... obviously not!

Or rather, it was not about Marxism, which is what I referred to.

Wine anyone?

Why is anyone bothering to engage with the goady twat?

Duracell Bunion People, Duracell Bunion.

Gecko there is no way you can win this here. I think not wearing a poppy is fine I never would but using Marx as a bench mark is so far off the mark you are going to get tangled in knots. We are too far down the road for communism to ever be on the agenda ever