Re: Socialism, again

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 09:15:35 MST


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:42:19AM -0500, John K Clark wrote:
>
> >The list of socialist regimes that didn't start filling mass graves
> >with their victims is actually much, much longer than the list
> >of those that did,
>
> Well now, that's quite a ringing endorsement isn't it. How's this for a
> catchy political slogan "Don't Worry Vote Socialist; We Probably Won't
> Kill You".

Repeat after me: "I must improve my reading comprehension".

Here's a clue: genocide and war correlates well with nationalism.
Genocide and war don't seem to correlate with socialism, but follow
those states which go socialist and *also* have a nationalism problem.

-- Charlie



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