Ideology: What did you use to believe?

[Kiljan Arslan]

Uh communism? BTW are you getting your info from say Lew Rockwell.com?

[christof139]

No, i get and have gotten my info. on many books concernign the formation, organization, ideals, leadership, and functioning of the Nazi Party and Communism as practiced under Stalin etc.

Chris

[mocker]

Mockracy.

[Shaun]

They are both extremely bad, but not equally evil.

So, fascism is less evil because?

You joined the Army because.....?

This is the "What did you use to believe in" thread. It's quite obvious that he changed from pacafism before joining the military.

[Hookah Smoking Caterpiller]

i used to think mainstream politics had substance

[Son of the Empire]

In my early days I believed in Communism acctually. It was so easy to be tricked into believing in equality trough work and all of that. I was about 15 at the time. But then I began to read some history and some books about economy. And I suddenly understood that you can't force people into equality when it comes to economy and worth. People are different and you can't change that...

[Trax]

In my early teens I managed to be both fascist and communist, I no longer remember in what order. In a way I still believe that communism is the perfect world order, though I understand that it could never work in our imperfect world inhabited by us - imperfect humans.

[FunTex]

When i was really young, about twelve or so, my friends and I flirted with communism, mostly for fun. The idea of total equality sounds pretty sweet when you don't have a job or pay any bills. Now I am a firm believer in the universal welfare state, and social liberalism, (the scandinavian model), but I am well aware of it's problems, and I know that it propably wouldn't work everywhere.

I should add that as a student without a job, I am exclusively a benefiter, not a contributor to the welfare state.

[Narakir]

Was communist but like you say...

In a way I still believe that communism is the perfect world order, though I understand that it could never work in our imperfect world inhabited by us - imperfect humans.

Now I'll be idealy social/christian-democrat and anti-neoliberal.

Even tough I admit that Socalism and Fascism are somewhat close ideologies on certain aspect. Mussolini has been a socalist after all.