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Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

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623 points franzb | 1 comments | 14 Nov 15 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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usaphp ◴[14 Nov 15 02:01 UTC] No.10564013[source]▶
I don't understand how can you talk about ISIS, Nazis and Communists in the same sentence? Communism has nothing to do with violence compared to ISIS and Nazis...

Edit: Why downvotes? Idea of communism does not propose violence, Nazis and ISIS on the other hand do.

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Svip ◴[14 Nov 15 02:05 UTC] No.10564028[source]▶
I think he might be talking about Stalinism. Or at the very least, just Stalin.
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lemevi ◴[14 Nov 15 02:16 UTC] No.10564074[source]▶
...or Bolsheviks, try reading wikipedia about the immediate post-revolution violence called the Red Terror as it will turn your stomach it was truly, truly terrible [0]

...or Maoism "struggle sessions" which resulted in 2 million deaths [1]

...or just read about mass killings in communist regimes[2]. Clearly communist governments have mass killed a lot of people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

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1. jtblin ◴[14 Nov 15 03:48 UTC] No.10564349[source]▶
The period after the French Revolution that threw down monarchy and more or less brought democracy to Europe was called the Terror [1] as well and tens of thousands of people were guillotined or executed (that was quite a lot of people at the time). Unfortunately, when oppressed people overcome the power in place, bad things happen as the results of the change in the balance of powers. IMHO this is similar to what happened when Bolsheviks took over the tsars and Communist Chinese put down the Emperor. I am of course not condoning violence (I am French and still in shock with what just happened) but I think these examples are sometimes more a sign of the people getting rid of hundreds (thousands) years of oppression than a particular political alignment. Unfortunately history is rich of mass killings in the name of politics, religions and other ideologies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror