He was most likely communist in the way Marx himself described it.


Some time after socialism is established society leaps forward, and everyone has plenty of personal possessions, but no one can exploit another person for private gain through the ownership of vast monopolies, and so forth. Classes are thus abolished, and class society ended. Communism will have spread across the world and be worldwide. Eventually the state will "wither away" and become obsolete, as people administer their own lives without the need for governments or laws. Thus, stateless communism or pure communism, which may be considered the Sixth Stage, is established, which has the following features:
Statelessness: there are no governments, laws, or nations any more.
Classlessness: all social classes disappear, everyone works for everyone else.
Propertylessness: there is no money or private property, all goods are free to be consumed by anyone that needs them.
In The Communist Manifesto Marx describes communism as:
“      When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class. In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. [5]      ”
Few applications of historical materialism, the philosophical system used by Marxism to explain the past progressions of human society and predict the nature of communism, account for a stage beyond communism, but Marx suggests that what has ended is only the "prehistory" [8] of human society; now, for the first time, humankind will be no longer be at the mercy of productive forces (e.g. the free market) which act independently of their control. Instead human beings can plan for the needs of society and the preservation of planet, inclusively, democratically, by the vast majority, who now own and control the means of production collectively. By implication, then, only now does the real history of human society begin.

-Wikipedia.


"True communism" is basically an ideal anarchist society.


But Slack was a "nut job". Maybe his reasons for action were just. But his actions clearly label him as someone who was "off his rocker."

Same with Mcveigh. I dont know his reasons. And maybe they were legitimate. But his actions cannot be justified.

He was angry that the government bailed out the well-off using his taxes, then he sees the heads of corporations getting such big bonuses.

He thought that these people got the best benefits of socialism and capitalism at the same time, and he himself for the worst of each.

I think... Anyway, he's an example of someone who was, well insane, after repeating the same thought processes again and again. (I still think the red tape did it)

Richard Enderle wrote on Feb 20^th, 2010 at 3:28pm:

But he was complaining about RED TAPE!

Like I said, he was most likely communist as Marx described it. No government what so ever.

Some of the anarchist in the party might even agree with him on a lot of things.

Richard Enderle wrote on Feb 21^st, 2010 at 10:41pm:


I do think he was mostly influenced by communism, but not fully.