Eurocentrism

If you think about it, Communism was a Western idea which was sold to the developing world as an antidote to other Western ideas.  It was supposed to be the magic elixir to undo the effects of colonialism and imperialism.  It was the magic bullet.  It was the antidote to the poison.

But it was vastly worse than all of them.  Far from being an antidote, it made the effects of the original poison more deadly.  Communism, by far, is the most horrific export from the minds of Europeans ever.  It is the disease we gifted people who were already suffering.  It was the serpent for people seeking the dove.  It was the betrayal which fell upon all who trusted it.

Americans and Europeans are far from innocent.  So too are the overwhelming bulk of the people we colonized.  Study any culture which some Western nation conquered: they had weapons.  They had warriors.  They had kings.  They fought and killed one another, attacked and enslaved one another, long before the first visit from us.

There may have been innocents here and there, but by and large, no nation and no people is innocent, and it is pointless and even counterproductive pretending otherwise.  Mexico is named after people who would flay their victims and run through the streets in their skins; who would cut the hearts out of people, whole, in front of vast mobs, and throw them into a pit (as I understand it).

If you are seeking simple solutions, then you don’t know very much.