From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 08:27:33 MDT
In a message dated 10/25/2002 9:06:37 AM Central Standard Time,
alexandersheppard@hotmail.com writes: Well, regarding socialism, it really
doesn't matter what we call it. For example, if you want to insist on calling
any sort of brutal tyranny socialism, I don't think that is a definition
which really makes sense--but it doesn't really matter.
Alexander,
Could you please document that? I am not aware of anyone lumping
tyrannies into socialism. The only tyrannies I have ever heard referred to
as socialist where ones that were claimed to be socialist by their adherents
and admirers.
Usually things work just the opposite direction -- as soon as a
socialist government fails its admirers try to define it out of the socialist
camp -- witness Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy where many socialists
today try to claim those two were capitalists.
Ron h.
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