{"id":13911,"date":"2017-09-25T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13911"},"modified":"2017-09-25T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:10:11","slug":"yes-it-was-real-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/25\/yes-it-was-real-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It Was Real Communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;or at least what inevitably happens when one tries to impose doctrinaire Marxist principles to create that fantasy utopia. Real Communism <em>was<\/em> tried, but because Communism is contrary to human nature, it inevitably fails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prof. Jordan B Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VsZJ0fJpLPc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">points out<\/a> the failures of Communism, and the hubris of those who think that it is possible&#8230; of only the right (<em>i<\/em>.<em>e<\/em>. themselves) person was in charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VsZJ0fJpLPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Communism, like socialism in general, is a religious belief and if reality contradicts it, then there <em>must<\/em> be something wrong with reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg 361w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Yes, It Was Real Communism\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"...or at least what inevitably happens when one tries to impose doctrinaire Marxist principles to create that fantasy utopia. Real Communism was tried, but because Communism is contrary to human nature, it inevitably fails.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;or at least what inevitably happens when one tries to impose doctrinaire Marxist principles to create that fantasy utopia. Real Communism was tried, but because Communism is contrary to human nature, it inevitably fails. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prof. Jordan B Peterson points out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/25\/yes-it-was-real-communism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13912,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions\/13912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}