In some quarters, the birthday of V.I. Lenin is being marked today. If you do not object to any honor for Lenin,think again. Why should one object? Here's why and whether you are a conservative or a liberal, or, most especially, a socialist (as in a non-communist socialist):
Bad blood after all these years as between socialism (which is neither atheistic nor theistic nor Christian, and so on ...) over the absolutism of Marxist Leninism. Had Democracy or even representative democracy been allowed to proceed in Russia of 1917, communism might, even if atheistic and anti-religion in its politics, have had some legitimacy in my eyes.
The revolution preceded the crimes of Lenin. The revolution led to the Republic and most assuredly was dead with the execution of Karensky. Sad, very sad.
Just so you know that for years and years I prayed the Rosary for the conversion of Russian which was by state decree atheistic and persecuted persons of religious conviction. Not sure if God can be said to have currently prevailed in the modern Russian state. Today I again pray the Rosary but for a different reason.
What time has taught many of us is that Russia in its very soul lives or dies if the center (the center being the power brokers in the Kremlin) does not hold. Unfortunately for the Russian people and all the bullied ethnic minorities of Russia and its client states, the center has time and time again trashed minorities, especially the individual who says emphatically to the state: NO! The tsars did it, Lenin did it, Stalin most assuredly did it, and others, and sadly Mr. Putin, the old KGB man does too.
Absolutism and statism scare the bejesus out of liberals such as myself, and pardon me if I retch at any idea of celebrating the birthday of Vlad!
Liberals and conservatives who do not know the dangers of statism of any stripe scare the bejesus out of me (as in fascists, nazis, and communists to name a few). Limited government gives people hope, and legitimate government requires of itself the reasonable and necessary curtailment of state power.
Communism in control of the state has proven again and again that it is its own worst enemy for no greater reason than that it prevails by becoming absolutist and dictatorial and extremist. China carries the banner of vested interest in capitalism today. In that sense it provides for now a future for its communist regime (at least if one ignors the human rights abuses rampant in its realm). Capitalism and communism are not strange bedfellows anymore than it was for the Nazi and the Fascists and the Phalangists.
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