Round this time of year, we hear a lot of talk about our old friend jolly St.Nick. I guess I'm way behind the times; I recently heard that a few years back the Eastern Orthodox Church Canonized Czar Nicholas II and his wife and kids who were shot by the Bolsheviks. So that makes 2 of them.
It's as logical as capitalist logic gets that Nick should be made a saint; look what the guy did. He sent millions to a senseless death in WWI many of whom were forcibly conscripted; he had defenceless protesters shot down; he ordered pogroms against the Jews; he refused to initiate reforms to improve the standard of living and maintained a ruthless and brutal police state. In other words, the guy was a poster-boy for capitalism.
What I don't get is, if we apply the same logic Nicky's church does, why they don't go all the way and make murderers like Hitler and Stalin saints.
For socialism,
Steve, Mehmet, John & contributing members of the SPC.
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