Perhaps if Ambrose Bierce were still with us (and who knows, we don’t know what became of him since he disappeared somewhere in Mexico during its revolution) he might have made the following addition to his famous work The Devil’s Dictionary:

COMMUNISM, n.
A simple idea, that with innocent charm and seductive promise makes monsters of men.

“It just hasn’t been attempted correctly!”  How many times are we going to hear that one?  Looking around the past few days at the celebrations of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, my head cannot but shake in disbelief.  That even today, there are many who will scream that communism will not only work but be a raging success… if the right people could be in charge of it.  And of course they will claim that they are the very “right people” who should be at the controls and trusted to ...