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[QUOTE="ShadowSD:386633"]eddie said:[QUOTE]dude borg are communists (totalitarian? i don't think you can be considered totalitarian without a leader, unless they do have a leader and i just forgot). Even if we put aside the Borg Queen and said they had no leader, I would still disagree that the Borg are far left. Communism was a far left theory, but a far right reality; just fascism under a different cloak. The USSR was led by dictators, not hippies, and the same is true for every communist regime that ever existed. This is because the theory of communism simply doesn't work on a country-wide level (as the last century has proven to everyone). And when a government fails to work, fascism inevitably takes over, whether you call it a monarchy or a dictatorship or a communist state or unlimited executive power. Fascism is fascism, a goverment led by hardline, militant, unchallenged, and untouchable figures in power who make life wonderful for a small elite and make life miserable for the majority. Such fascist values are reactionary (which is as far RIGHT on the political spectrum as you can get), because they represent the nature of all human societies up until just a few centuries ago. For 99.9% of human existence, such governments retained their power by rounding up and killing intellectuals and progressives. Only in this last .1% of human history do we see a few countries daring to stray from this model. Sorry to get carried away on this point, but I hate how reactionary conservatives keep the "communism is far left" rhetoric alive in this country to implicitly keep people at bay from progressive thought. If you believe communism is an inherant failure, a theory that didn't work in practice that falsely represented itself as progress, then you can't turn around and put it on the progressive end of the political spectrum. Either communism lived up to communal ideals and was genuninely far left, or it it didn't live up to communal ideals and wasn't far left; you can't have it both ways. And clearly, virtually all Americans (particularly conservatives) believe communism was an inherant failure. And yet they continue with all this gay rhetoric that essentially says if you're not neo-conservative, you're a commie. (If those are the only two choices, I should just shoot myself now... it's like me saying hey I'm in a metal band and them saying [b]repeatedly[/b] well if you don't play techno then you're a rapper and you hate America.) eddie said:[QUOTE]other side of the spectrum. being forced to join the collective and being forced to vote on a new government is two different things.[/QUOTE] True, the collective doesn't give you a free button. [/QUOTE]
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