[barrett.t]

They were very brave people to fight for a good cause. That it was, Marxism has never been practised any where on this planet. The popular fronts of Europe were as has been stated were made up of Liberals Socialists Republicans and so on. For some reason socialism has always attracted bullies amongst other descent people. Marx never argued for the deaths of priests but he did say that religion was the opiate of poor people. They might have used this as a justification, they were still wrong. Marx did not like religion because it kept the poor in their place "your reward will be heaven not on this earth." Work hard for the few and shut up and die making me a profit. Society was invented by the rich and powerful only for their aims. Marx never argues for the deaths of working class people. Stalin, Mao, Castro were, are dictators Marx wanted the dictatorship of the working class. That direct democracy would prevail in a true communist state. Where the people decided social policy. The only countries to have come near it were Britain and France. Although the bullies messed it up again peoples egos get in the way. They want to tell other people what to do that is not direct democracy.