At 5:06 AM +0100 14/03/11, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:

>I'm not against any kind of freedom, but what 
>I'm against is that a guy like Sig Larsson uses 
>his so-called 'criminal stories' to promote a 
>real radicalized left-wing communism - a faction 
>that is so far out left that even the Kmer rouge 
>in Cambodia was right-winged conservatism! This 
>very radicalized left-wing group is mostly 
>located in the north of Sweden, and they do 
>state that they don't accept the society and 
>they are willing to use force if necessary to 
>reach their goals.

Erik, have you read these books we're talking 
about? They are talking about freedom, democracy, 
concern for the protection and rights of children 
and women. In the third one, he talks about a 
case of child labor which has two ends to it -- a 
Swedish capitalist buying (and reselling at a 
vast profit) the products produced by child labor 
... and the fact that the child labor factory is 
in Vietnam. Communist Vietnam, please note. If he 
had wished to do so, he could have located it in 
any number of non-communist countries.

Yes, his record says he was pretty hard core 
communist in his youth -- like half a life time 
ago. He was also heavily into science fiction 
then. Does that  tell us something? The record 
also says that the communist party of that era in 
Sweden is now the quite respectable Socialist 
Party.

I take it you are *not* a supporter of the 
neo-Nazis that Larsson has been busy opposing in 
the second half of his life? Or of child labor? 
Or of rape and prostitution? He was writing 
against all these things.

And please don't talk loosely about the Khmer 
Rouge. I have Khmer friends who lost every one of 
their family members to those murdering bastards 
in the most horrible of manners. Please don't 
trivialize what happened to them by making these 
kinds of ridiculous comparisons.

And by the way -- remember that the people who 
stopped the bloody Khmer Rouge in the end were 
the Vietnamese. Not the great and powerful 
democracies of the world, but the poor 
Vietnamese. Communists! Who also have child labor.

I also have Vietnamese friends who suffered 
dreadfully under the communist government in 
Vietnam. I don't know any personally, but I have 
read accounts of Vietnamese who suffered 
dreadfully under the French colonial governments. 
The great French democracy.

There's good and bad under all kinds of labels. 
Labels re often meaningless -- particularly 
political labels like left and right. Politics is 
like a circle. If you go far enough left or far 
enough right, you end up in a bloodthirsty 
dictatorship where the labels left and right mean 
nothing since they come to the same thing. Please 
think about that.

best regards
geoff