From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 18:35:18 MST
--- Alexander Sheppard <alexandersheppard@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think mabye the biggest problem that I can see, with regard to the
> discussions of socialism and communism on this list, is that everyone
> refuses to make any sort of definition of these terms. People wildly
> call virtually any bad thing that comes to find an example of
> "socialism"--Nazi Germany was "socialism", for example, presumably
> because its proponents
> called it that, and it suited a propaganda purpose in America to call
> it that, so as to show people how evil "socialism" was.
The biggest problem the rest of us sees is that you seem to be
constitutionally incapable of accepting the definitions the rest of the
world uses to describe a thing as valid definitions, particularly
because the historical evidence associated with these defintions makes
your position look so bad. We don't refuse to make definitions, we have
them, you just refuse to acknowledge them. Stop trying to turn the
argument back on us when it is you who are in need of explaining yourself.
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