the hammer and sickle vs. the Christian cross

[Richard]

can someone explain the difference betweent eh two?

Supposedly the hammer and sickle is evil because loads of people were killed by people who used it as their symbol. But loads of people were also killed by the Crusades, and the Salem witch trials, and various purges of Jews in Medevial Europe, etc. But one does not consider the Christian cross to be a symbol of those actions.

Similarily, the hammer and sickle represents the unity of power of workers. One can agree with that and not Stalin's genocide.

I have no problems with either symbol. I agree with what both represent and it's not the genocides committed by those claiming to be Christians or Marxists. So what is wrong with the hammer and sickle?

Someone once said, a long time ago, in a different language (so I'm paraphrasing here):

We will "harvest" the Christians with the sickle and "hammer" God out of heaven.




Unity of workers my ass.

[Richard]

I'm not really a communist, but if you want to say so, go ahead. I guess many would say it's an oxymoron, but I hear there's a lot in Italy.

Then why your reverence for the hammer and sickle?  What great hopes and dreams does that symbol hold for you?  To mean, it means mass murder, military aggression, gulags and complete economic dysfunction.  I can't see anything positive about it.

Everyone is EQUAL.  Everyone has equal misery and can die in equalness.

[Richard]

I'd gas them.

I wish you'd go into policits.