"RULES FOR A REVOLUTION"

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

COMMUNIST "RULES FOR A REVOLUTION"

1. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
2. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby:
3. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and other trivialities.
4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
5. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and disgrace.
6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy it's credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
8. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of the government toward such disorders.
9. Cause breakdown of the old moral values - honestly, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscate them and leaving the populace helpless."

"In May of 1919 two lorries rumbled across a bridge on into the town of Dusseldorf, Germany, Among the dozen or so rowdy "Tommies" were two Allied intelligence officers who had traced a wave of insurgency, sabotage and desertion to a local cell of Communist activity. As they broke into a meeting of these Communist operatives, they discoverd in a safe, what has been called the Communist "Rules for a Revolution."

I have reprinted it here for your information and comparison of current events in our country. They were first printed in the United States in the "Bartlesville (Oklahoma) Examiner-Enterprise" the same year, 1919.

Almost 20 years later, in 1946, the attorney general of Florida obtained them from a known member of the Communist Party, who acknowledged that the "Rules" were then still a part of the Communist program for the United States.

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[scandal 951]

Comrade Bill,

You have posted the highly classified plans of the C4C for the brainwashing of the proletariat and the eventual adoption of the Obama health plan.

For your breaching of these secret plans I recommend an immediate Politburo meeting to determine the correct punishment to which you should be subjected posthaste. Dumping several boxes of Ritz crackers in your bed seems about right to me.

Yours Truly,

The Troktsky Espionage branch of C4C

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Comrade Bill,

You have posted the highly classified plans of the C4C for the brainwashing of the proletariat and the eventual adoption of the Obama health plan.

For your breaching of these secret plans I recommend an immediate Politburo meeting to determine the correct punishment to which you should be subjected posthaste. Dumping several boxes of Ritz crackers in your bed seems about right to me.

Yours Truly,

The Troktsky Espionage branch of C4C

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

[scandal 951]

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

There are enemies everywhere!

Counter-revolutionary spies are like vermin, they hide in the walls and floorboards. They come to Town hall meetings and make noises about "First Amendment" rights to which they amusingly think they are entitled. And they dare (dare!) to insist that we should responsibly pay down our debt and have accountable government. It's a travesty I tell you! A travesty and a mockery of our grand Revolution!

Now, about those "sexy books", I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate your copies. Purely for my scientific research, you understand. Hand them over.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

There are enemies everywhere!

Counter-revolutionary spies are like vermin, they hide in the walls and floorboards. They come to Town hall meetings and make noises about "First Amendment" rights to which they amusingly think they are entitled. And they dare (dare!) to insist that we should responsibly pay down our debt and have accountable government. It's a travesty I tell you! A travesty and a mockery of our grand Revolution!

Now, about those "sexy books", I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate your copies. Purely for my scientific research, you understand. Hand them over.

All I have left are these books on "Animal Husbandry". You want those?

[scandal 951]

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

There are enemies everywhere!

Counter-revolutionary spies are like vermin, they hide in the walls and floorboards. They come to Town hall meetings and make noises about "First Amendment" rights to which they amusingly think they are entitled. And they dare (dare!) to insist that we should responsibly pay down our debt and have accountable government. It's a travesty I tell you! A travesty and a mockery of our grand Revolution!

Now, about those "sexy books", I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate your copies. Purely for my scientific research, you understand. Hand them over.

All I have left are these books on "Animal Husbandry". You want those?

[Pooky 3,786]

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

There are enemies everywhere!

Counter-revolutionary spies are like vermin, they hide in the walls and floorboards. They come to Town hall meetings and make noises about "First Amendment" rights to which they amusingly think they are entitled. And they dare (dare!) to insist that we should responsibly pay down our debt and have accountable government. It's a travesty I tell you! A travesty and a mockery of our grand Revolution!

Now, about those "sexy books", I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate your copies. Purely for my scientific research, you understand. Hand them over.

All I have left are these books on "Animal Husbandry". You want those?

You married a WHAT?????

[Malrothien 6]

[peejay 327]

Anyone that has even a vague idea of the history of Soviet communism would not be making jokes about it and should be ashamed to even profess any membership in any communist organization (especially in jest).

This is a pathetic and offensive attempt at cheap humor.

[Malrothien 6]

Anyone that has even a vague idea of the history of Soviet communism would not be making jokes about it and should be ashamed to even profess any membership in any communist organization (especially in jest).

This is a pathetic and offensive attempt at cheap humor.

I'm half-Cuban. My grandparents, aunt, and mother fled from Cuba in 1969 from Castro's regime after his government stole everything they had.

I am still able to laugh at Communism.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

You mean, we are not surrounded by friends?

There are enemies everywhere!

Counter-revolutionary spies are like vermin, they hide in the walls and floorboards. They come to Town hall meetings and make noises about "First Amendment" rights to which they amusingly think they are entitled. And they dare (dare!) to insist that we should responsibly pay down our debt and have accountable government. It's a travesty I tell you! A travesty and a mockery of our grand Revolution!

Now, about those "sexy books", I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate your copies. Purely for my scientific research, you understand. Hand them over.

All I have left are these books on "Animal Husbandry". You want those?

He already has a husband.

[NickD 203]

Which of the suppose communistic countries actually practiced communism? By definition of the word:

com·mu·nism (k¼m“y…-n¹z”…m) n. 1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.

Castro, Stalin, etc., all dictators that lived at a much higher standard then their starving salve laborers, wasn't for the good of all, but just for the good of a few. Capitalism does share many of these traits if not regulated.

[scandal 951]

Anyone that has even a vague idea of the history of Soviet communism would not be making jokes about it and should be ashamed to even profess any membership in any communist organization (especially in jest).

This is a pathetic and offensive attempt at cheap humor.

Maybe I don't have a vague idea then.

I did have a great-uncle who spent several decades in Stalinist gulags before finally immigrating to Israel as an old man in his 80s in the Yeltsin era, after surrendering a life to the oppression of that regime and era. I have no illusions about Soviet communism.

Edgy humor - politically irreverent, socially provocative humor - can serve a purpose in exposing the hollowness of the regimes it critiques.

I'm not saying C4C has mastered the art of political satire. Sure, it's puerile and juvenile. But it pays homage to a long established tradition of exposing the flaws of a political ideology through mockery and humor. Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Gary Trudeau, and many others throughout the years have mastered this art. I 'get' the gag. You apparently do not.

Lighten up, dude. Or don't. Whatever. You say this is offensive to you? Deal.

Just as I and others deal with the offensive ####### spewed here daily by those who heap abuse and vitriol on the serving President of these United States (amongst many others), duly elected and sworn to serve.

[Danno 1,228]

Which of the suppose communistic countries actually practiced communism? By definition of the word:

com·mu·nism (k¼m“y…-n¹z”…m) n. 1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.

Castro, Stalin, etc., all dictators that lived at a much higher standard then their starving salve laborers, wasn't for the good of all, but just for the good of a few. Capitalism does share many of these traits if not regulated.

Did you ever teach social studies?

This kind of stuff sounded just like my 9th grade teacher, of course at the time I believed it.

Is this Mr Vizoko?

[joelunchbox 0]

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