there are about as many communists in the world as there are Christians.
Really? There are a lot of Christians. From what I’ve read, virtually nobody in China is a communist now, just as people had stopped believing in the last days of the Soviet Union. In North Korea or among the rebels of Nepal there are still true-believers, but I don’t think there are as many as there are Christians.
In general I like having a norm against using force when people make bad arguments. I deplore the anti-fascist fascists who seem to be the primary enemies of free speech today. At the same time I recognize that in some situations it could hypothetically be the case that free speech leads to bad outcomes, in which case I’d be alright with restricting it. I think such cases would be fantastically rare and would likely only occur during a civil war (a category I don’t consider wars of secession to be members of). I recognize though that in normal situations giving a directive/command as opposed to an argument for something should be treated as solicitation of an act. Stephan Kinsella discusses that in Causality and Aggression.
I think that you can’t count most of the Chinese as non-communist. Centralized propoganda is a strong weapon and shouldn’t be discounted. When people first start doubting church dogmas- in most part they developped a some kinds of heresy, not an atheism. So, they doesn’t believe in offical religion, but for outer observer point of view—they beliefs was almost indistingushable from offical dogma.
And in the example with Soviet Union- communist party still exsicte tin Russia. It’s influence slowly dyied out, but right after the disintegration of Soviet Union they have a really good chance to win elections
there are about as many communists in the world as there are Christians. Really? There are a lot of Christians. From what I’ve read, virtually nobody in China is a communist now, just as people had stopped believing in the last days of the Soviet Union. In North Korea or among the rebels of Nepal there are still true-believers, but I don’t think there are as many as there are Christians.
In general I like having a norm against using force when people make bad arguments. I deplore the anti-fascist fascists who seem to be the primary enemies of free speech today. At the same time I recognize that in some situations it could hypothetically be the case that free speech leads to bad outcomes, in which case I’d be alright with restricting it. I think such cases would be fantastically rare and would likely only occur during a civil war (a category I don’t consider wars of secession to be members of). I recognize though that in normal situations giving a directive/command as opposed to an argument for something should be treated as solicitation of an act. Stephan Kinsella discusses that in Causality and Aggression.
I think that you can’t count most of the Chinese as non-communist. Centralized propoganda is a strong weapon and shouldn’t be discounted. When people first start doubting church dogmas- in most part they developped a some kinds of heresy, not an atheism. So, they doesn’t believe in offical religion, but for outer observer point of view—they beliefs was almost indistingushable from offical dogma. And in the example with Soviet Union- communist party still exsicte tin Russia. It’s influence slowly dyied out, but right after the disintegration of Soviet Union they have a really good chance to win elections