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From: TimF	9/11/2008 6:42:05 PM
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Apologists of the world unite! Mary Theroux has a blog post about the various Depression-era Western apologists for communism. Heck I remember such apologists in my college days in the 1980s among fellow students as well as professors. Her post reminded me of a recent conversation with a small group of people including a somewhat prominent mainstream economist. We were talking about the Georgia-Russia war, and someone compared Russia's actions with the Nazis. I kinda chuckled and told a story about a poster I had in college. It had a swastika, a hammer & sickle, and picture of Stalin and Hitler. The caption read "Two Faces. One Ideology." I just loved that poster! It used to infuriate my commie-pinko leftist friends in college, which is precisely why I liked it so much. Anyway, after a momentary pause, this prominent economist says, "Gee, I don't know if that's fair. I think they [i.e., the communists] meant well." WTF? They meant well?!? They meant well?!? For the record: (1) No they didn't! (2) Even if they did, that's no excuse! Posted by Robert Lawson at 04:47 PM in Politics divisionoflabour.com

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