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To: AC Flyer who wrote (40927)	11/5/2003 9:53:10 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (2) of 74559

For your sake I hope you know more about economics than you do about history. All the Communist revolutions were accomplished by idealists who were willing to, and often had to, give up their lives for the cause. In order to succeed they had to have a kind of military organization with absolute obedience. There is a certain tendency in this type of organization for the power hungry to rise to the top and the innocents to fall to the bottom. I remember a Chinese man in 1948 who was narrow and selfish and pro-Kuomintang and as anti-Communist as they come. It was dangerous to even hint at your opintions to him. A few days after the Communist fourth route army entered the city of Beijing, where I and he and a couple of million people were, he astonishingly began echoing the Communist line, first hesitantly then resolutely. I and my friends scorned him but he became a party member. Inside the Soviet Communist party and I presume the Chinese Communist Party, the power hungry rose and rose after the party won its victory and we know that Stalin executed most of the original revolutionaries. Mao also kicked out or killed some famous revolutionaries, Liu Shao Chi, Lin Biao and great writer Lao She etc. etc. Absolute power caused him to identify his own power with the welfare of the people. He was a great general and propagandist on the way to success. He was a bad manager and a cruel one when he had absolute power. Life began again for China when Deng came to the leadership. Your view of Communism is one sided. Okay it didn't work as an economic system. After victory against evil enemies, it was corrupted by power; eventually the people of the USSR and China strode onto the path leading to democracy.

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