I've come to notice that many forum members, specially bester, are very uneducated about the subject. What the difference between Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Marx? How is that that they are many types of "communism"? Is their a difference between communism and socialism? What is capitalism? Is capitalism evil? ineffective? Is communism the solution?

In a short series of post I will answer all your questions and more. The conclusion will be that communism, in the sense of a totalitarian government is only favorable for slave races like the Russians who must be told what to do.

We shall start our discussion with excerpts of our textbook Bolshevism: practice and theory By Bertrand Russell:

http://books.google.com/books?id=d2I...ligion&f=false

Has you read keep in mind: "Where the Bolsheviks a secular religion?"

If you need a definition here is one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_religion