User blog comment:Weedle McHairybug/Peace doesn't really sound very good to me... (various MG references and real life references ahead)./@comment-77.27.160.189-20121101190423

Ok… several things. Communism is just an economic system developed in the 19th century designed to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

There are dozens of different interpretations of communism: Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism-Leninism, Titoism, Libertarian Marxism, Eurocommunism, Council Communism, Anarchist Communism, Christian Communism… Some were authoritarian, militaristic, and even genocidal, while others were pacifistic.

Meanwhile, National Socialism took ideas from a lot places: Communism, Capitalism, Fascism… But Hitler did create the Nazi party to confront the Communists in Germany. In Germany, the Nazis and the Communists hated each other. And many historians consider that the Nazis were just as anti-capitalist as they were anti-communist.

And basically the Nazi-Soviet Alliance was just an alliance of interest. Hitler basically tricked Stalin, just to buy some time. They would divide Europe temporarily, while Germany was busy fighting the British and the French. Once they were weakened or defeated, Hitler betrayed Stalin, invading the USSR. Remember that the Spanish Civil War was a proxy war between the Nazis/Fascists and the Soviets.

Personally, I think Christianity (and most religions) are a joke, and the Bible tends to contradict reality (and itself) most of the time. And Nazism and Communism in Germany, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cambodia… are comparable to religion. It was basically just political regimes with a set of dogmas designed to create fanatics (like religious fundamentalists), and within these regimes there was a leader figure (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot) that used media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and, at times god-like public image. Basically Hitler and Stalin were into gods through propaganda and political manipulation.

Che Guevara was a war criminal. One of his nicknames was “El Carnicero de La Cabaña” (translated “The Butcher of La Cabaña”). http://letterstoadyingdream.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/the-butcher-of-la-cabana-the-real-che/

I think that the Politically Incorrect Guides are bias, reflect a political agenda, and, in many cases, are even untrue, contradicting reality, such as the Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, or the Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Global Warming. These books aren’t just politically incorrect; they are also incorrect about science, logic, and history.