{"id":7473,"date":"2015-01-03T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/03\/do-communists-lie\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T05:53:53","slug":"do-communists-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/03\/do-communists-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Communists Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I just now found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpusa.org\/faq\/\" target=\"_self\">this<\/a> at the CPUSA website:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Communists are not against religion. We are against capitalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A communist who is not against religion would be like a Catholic who is not against atheism or a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teetotalism\" target=\"_self\">teetotaler<\/a> who is not against drinking alcoholic beverages.&#0160;&#0160; <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">What we have here is further proof that truth is not a leftist value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Leftists, like Islamists, feel justified in engaging in any form of mendacity so long as it promotes their agenda.&#0160; And of course the agenda, the list of <em>what is to be done<\/em> (to cop a line from V.I. Lenin), is of paramount importance&#0160; since, as Karl Marx himself wrote, &quot;The philosophers have variously interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it.&quot; (11th Thesis on Feuerbach). The glorious end justifies the shabby means.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The quotation above is a piece of <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/11\/pelosis-orwellian-mendacity-a-stfu-moment.html\" target=\"_self\">Orwellian mendacity<\/a>.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As for Islamists, their doctrine in support of deception is called <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/03\/taqiyya-tawriya-and-creative-lying.html\" target=\"_self\">taqiyya<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Islamism is the communism of the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You should not take at face value anything any contemporary liberal says.&#0160; 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