communism is not bolshevism

Submitted by G.Vishvas (Germany), Mar 10, 2010 at 06:55

Why is everyone thinking communism can be equated to bolshevism? In USA and the capitalist world it became fashion to confuse the two.

Bolsheviks, maoists, castroists etc. are political movements to realize some form of communism. Communism is only an ideal, a distant ideal - may be an unworkable one.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology and an instrument of arab imperialism and for this pupose it needs to practise fascist methods. This fact gets camouflaged because islam claims to be the final religion of the one and only god. Islam's claims are largely mendacious. But islam claiming to be a religion has made it difficult to expose islam's inherent fascism. Communism is another matter altogether and should not be equated with bolshevism etc.

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