> They may not say that they favor mass murder, but they do it whenever they get the chance.

So you're claiming that everyone who has ever favored Marxist ideals will without any doubt resort to mass murder when given the chance?

> Nice sentiment, but you're defending folks who kill political opponents and attacking someone who didn't even jail folks.
And, you still haven't addressed the "conservative blacklist" that Hollywood has today. You're rather selective in your outrage over "ruined lives".

"Didn't even jail folks?" From Wikipedia:

It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of
McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds,
and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs

Do you bother to investigate what you are talking about? And again, I will state: Do you believe that everyone that has ever believed in 'Marxist ideals' murders political opponents? If not, then you are arguing a fallacy here.

> No it wasn't. There aren't witches, but there were communists and, according to the USSR's records from the time, McCarthy was basically correct.

[citation needed]

McCarthyism was the same thing that the Soviets were doing to their own people. The only difference was that they were killing people instead of shaming and/or jailing them. It doesn't make it right on any side. All it does is create a society of people that will turn in their neighbors because they "might be Communists" because they "said that they disagree with the Leader/Dictator/President/Party."

> That simply doesn't matter at this point. Millions of dead folks is too much risk to take, again.
> Of course, if you actually pay attention to communists and Marxists, they always let "break a few eggs" slip. They try to hide it, but they're fundamentally authoritarians with a nasty thought-control streak.

But you have the SAME philosophy. You're 'breaking a few eggs' to find the Communists. How are you any better than them? Because "I'm right and they are wrong?" They believe that they are right and you are wrong. So who is really right and really wrong?

Please wake up and realize that the world is not black-or-white. You seem to have this 'with us or against us' mentality. You are bordering on wanting to execute anyone that is ever an idealist in thinking that Communism in the Marxist sense (i.e. all humans working together towards a better world) in a bid to prevent any 'Communism' from ever happening again. You fail to realize that:

1. You are no better than the 'Communists' that you are so afraid of if you think that 'breaking a few eggs' to prevent 'Communism' is the best course of action. In either case, you can't fault the 'Communists' for having that philosophy if you yourself have already adopted it. The word 'hypocrite' comes to mind.

2. 'Communism' in the forms that we have seen in in the world thus far as a far cry from what Marx actually believed in. To that end, the only thing that all of the 'Communist' regimes share in common is that they are just excuses for totalitarianism. They are just empty promises to the people to get popular support for overthrowing the current regime and/or justifications by the people actually implementing the 'revolution.' Once these regimes are actually in power their operations are a far cry from what should actually be called Communism. It is really and truly a perversion of the term.

I'm not about to argue whether or not Communism in the purest most idealistic form is a real possibility in this world or just an impossible dream. I will say that trying to censor people through jail-time and/or public embarrassment/harassment is really low and not something that should be promoted in a 'free' society. It might not be as bad as mass murder, but that's not saying much. That sort of censorship is the path to Fascism and I doubt you're about to start arguing about the benefits of Fascism over Communism (if you are, I'll just label you a troll and move on).