From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 13:45:03 GMT
Platt
> > The "community of believers" sounds suspiciously like a Hippie commune.
> > As for Communism, does anyone really want to argue for it given its
> > history of genocide?
Arlo:
> Sounds like you're confusing stalinism or leninism with marxism. Marx would
> have been appalled, as any human should be, at the attrocities carried out
> under the guise of communism, just as much as the genocide of the indians
> should apall any human that were carried out under the name of democracy.
I doubt if Marx would be appalled any more than Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol
Pot and all their minions were. Unlike the U.S., I know of no geographical
areas aside by Communists for their opponents to reside in peace.
Platt
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