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No.W@y.com wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:22:06 -0500, Olin Murrell <olin@bga.com> wrote:
> 
> Is that Murrell, or McCarthy?
> 

Oh, please!

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

A rather tired argument, considering the method of implementation where
it HAS been developed.

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

Ever been there? I have. Believe me, they most assuredly do understand
corruption, because they've seen little else, dating back to when the
first brick was laid in the wall of the Kremlin. During the time of the
Czars, the ruling class lived fat and happy, while the peasants toild to
provide the means. During the Communist era, the ruling class lived fat
and happy, while the peasants toiled to provide the means.

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

Duh! I think that's what I said. Here, we'd been led to believe they
could just magically transform themselves, and now we're seeing that
they can't.

However, this thread has become a prime example of what I've been saying
all along, that the real threats to peace and freedom comes from the
"true believers" of both the right and left wings. Here, I'm stuck in an
argument beweeen right AND left wing misanthropes, neither of whom can
see anything but black and white.

One argues that Communism must return to Russia, so some idiotic
interpretation of a bible story written thousands of years ago, and in
all likelihood mistranslated by King James' hired wordsmiths, can come
true. The other argues that Communism merely "wasn't implemented"
properly.

It is sad, to the point of criminality, what's going on in the former
Soviet Union, but half-truths over which political system would serve
the Russian people better do little to avert or avoid the real truth
that they're being driven back to Communism, and probably a bloody and
revengeful version of it to boot, so a) the West can have it's reliable
old enemy back, sans a few teeth... and b) so the precious few who truly
believe in Communism as a viable form of government can point to another
failure of capitalism.

"Murrell or McCarthy," my ass!

-- 
Olin Murrell
Austin, Texas
http://www.realtime.com/~olin