Re: When?

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From: Kennon Baird
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:00

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No.W@y.com wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:22:06 -0500, Olin Murrell <olin@bga.com> wrote:

>*True* communism is a system of complete equality.  It has never been
>fully implemented anywhere in the world.

Wow, I never thought I'd hear that tired old argument for communism
again! Isn't that sort of like saying that slavery could have
succeeded if only it had been done *right*?

>The actual problem facing the people of Russia today is that most of
>them do not know how to be _CORRUPT_ENOUGH_!

I submit that people who have no choice but to labor within an
all-pervasive bureaucracy know little *other*  than corruption. Just
look at the corruption in our own government, or in any large
corporate bureaucracy for that matter. The bigger the "system", the
more pervasive the  corruption.

>They do not understand a system of established advantage, privelege
>and favoritism.

Russians understand it quite well. They all saw the Soviet-era Party
chiefs being driven to their dachas in limousines.

Get real, Man!

Kennon

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From: kfb@phoenix.net (Kennon Baird)
Subject: Re: When?
Date: 1997/09/29
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