Javier A. Tabush

 

"This year (2014) marks the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. In June of 1914, a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, along with his wife, Sophie, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This set in motion a chain of events that in July and August 1914 brought all the Great Powers of Europe into war with each other. "

 

 

- The Great War Released the Collectivist Demons

The First World War also set lose all the “demons” that ended up bringing so much horror to the 20thcentury. 

 

 

Historians have attempted to add up the human cost of 20th century collectivism – whether in its communist, fascist, Nazi or general authoritarian forms. Their estimates suggest a a number of many as 250 million innocent and unarmed men, women, and children who were killed on the altars of creating a “new socialist man” or a “new master race,” or super powerful nation-states.

 

Liberals condemned the corrupt and manipulated electoral process in Great Britain that gave office in Parliament to handpicked voices defending the narrow interests of the landed aristocracy at the expense of many others in society. 

 

 

Hegel’s contribution was to assert that human history followed a preordained course through a conflict of inescapable stages that would all lead to a higher spiritual conception of freedom as perfect knowledge and understanding, which would free men from their chains of ignorance and materialistic living. 

 

The largest numbers killed by execution, torture, slave labor, or government-created famines are estimated to be:

• Communist China (1949-1976) under Mao Zedong – 80 million;

• Soviet Union (1917-1991) under Lenin, Stalin, and their successors – 68 million;

• Nazi Germany (1933-1945) under Hitler and his henchmen – 25 million.