Answer to Mr. Melik

Submitted by Silvio B (United States), Sep 28, 2006 at 19:01

Thanks Mr. Melik for the extensive answer to my previous remarks. I would like to elucidate more my points and also comment on your statements.

I never made any equation stating Marxism is equivalent to Islam, the common point I highlighted was the lack of freedom these two systems cause, in opposition to the American model. I think that one should make some effort to understand where the world is going: 50 years ago nobody would have predicted the peaceful collapse of communism, but it happened.

Even if events are unpredictable (as the 9/11, which nobody was expecting...), we can try to catch the sign of times. Nowadays, in Europe (where Mr. Melik never lived, if I understood correctly) there is a quite odd but real alliance between the Marxists and Islam, and this is not a private opinion but a matter of fact!!!

As explained in my previous post, both have common enemies: the USA (as symbol of capitalism) and the Christian (with particular attention to the Catholic) Church. Marxism is a complex reality and it is evolving (like a letal virus, the principles of nature have a universal application), I would say that nowadays nobody would imagine possible to apply the communist Manifesto as it was published in London in 1848, executed by Stalin, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot and Mao; however, the Marxism of nowadays, which lead the left coalition to victory allover Europe, is that of Gramsci (the Italian communist who did not support Stalin and therefore was sentenced to death by the communist compagni, but that was miracolously saved by being arrested and imprisoned by Mussolini). In the Marxism of Gramsci there is not violent fight, the new order of the society (at the very end equal to that one wanted by Stalin) is imposed by the intellectuals, who transfer peacifully their ideas to the masses, and make efforts to let the masses understand that Marxism is the best choice for them.

The communism of Gramsci comes directly from the Jacobins of the French revolution (who were the first "left" wing, since at the French National assembly they sat on the left side in opposition to the King Luis XVI, who represented the Church), the Illuminati of yesterday (as the freemasons of today) believed they had the full knowledge of everything and they believed that they had the right to decide for the rest of the people mass. Another important point of the Gramsci's Marxism is the discrimination, since he preached that every compagno (Marxist militant) must discriminate on the working place all who are not Marxists, so that it is easier to get at the top of the State institutions.

Nowadays, Gramsci's Marxism has successful imposed in Europe, I can tell that, in Italy, if one is not Marxist is done; in the sense that many doors close. Even journalists working at Mediaset (e.g. Costanzo and Mentana) publicly support the left coalition!!! (Mediaset is the Berlusconi's television company). Even journals from the "West" like the prestigious "The Economist" invited Italians in discharging Berlusconi at the last political elections, with the results that today the Italian president (Cossutta) is a former member of the Italian comunist party (which sympathized with the Soviets), the Italian foreign minister (D'Alema) is the former president of the Italian communist party, the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (Bertnotti) is the president of the present Italian communist party.

That Marxists rule Italy and Europe is a matter of fact, not an opinion!!! That Italians, and Europeans, undergo an incredible taxation level, which finantiate the building mosques and to give the terrorists welfare benefits (as it occurred in the emblematic London example) is a matter of fact not a discutible opinion!!!

As personal belief, I retain that Gramsci's Marxism is going to be a worldwide system, United States included. The principle that all salaries must be equal has been broadcast to the masses on a global scale; nowadays, it seems correct that all must earn the same and a taxation level of 60% became morally accetable. The idea that religion must have no space in the public life is a dogma (as the communist wanted in Russia). The opinion that all religions are the same is politically correct and that the State must finance the mosqe construction to help immigrant integration is a cornerstone of the left coalition program in Europe (soon coming to the USA). The fact that a manual worker can ask 100$ for a 10-30 minutes work (as it happened to me last week when I asked a Ford mechanician to detect the check engine of the car) and that a PhD may collect 100$/day can happen...

Finally, the pacifism culture is spreading that that the State should have no army and everybody should be a pacifist (one of the 4 principle of the perfect communist society), this misbelief is pushed to the extreme inducing people like Mr. Melik to think that the USA answered to the 9/11 just for the welfare of the military industry!!!

We do not know what the future reserves, but I would like to conclude with another matter of fact: in Sicily there are many cemeteries, but amid them some is very special, since they host non-Italian people: they are the few cemeteries of the American (and British) soldiers dead in the name of economical, political and religious freedom....

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