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To: Akula who wrote (216)	9/6/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: C Kahn	Respond to of 440

Akula, no apology in necessary. I am always amazed that people assume I am a man on the Internet, unless I tell them otherwise. But I suppose it is because of the assumption that most Internet users are male. And I have been guilty of this myself! So I've learned not to assume a person's gender. But I graciously accept your apology. You are very wise to try to perceive people as individuals rather than looking at groups of people. I feel that any given "Group", even though there may be a common thread, is made up of individual people who have who have had many different experiences in their lives that have brought them to the ideas and beliefs that make them a unique individual. And I think it is on this level that we can try to understand each other. I think this is the most effective way we can try to get along with each other, even if we don't agree on everything. I use these forums for the same reason that you do. To learn things and try to understand other people's perspectives on many things in life. I believe that people who think they know it all and have nothing left to learn are cheating themselves out of living life to to it's fullest. Don't ever give up hope and keep an open mind to different perspectives and you will have a rich and fulfilling life. You are already wise beyond your years. Regards, C Kahn

To: Akula who wrote (216)	9/8/1999 7:04:00 AM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 440

This is something for you to think about. The Democratic party is run by the liberal left who are nothing more than Socialists to be exact. The following scares the hell out of me as far as how much they resemble what this country has gone to war over in Vietnam, Korea and what the stand off in the Bay of Pigs was all about during the Kennedy years. What is Socialism? Many will tell you that socialism is a moderate form of Communism. Others claim them to be two distinctly different and opposite theories, communism being a cruel and harsh failure and socialism being an enlightened and successful theory. Both of these notions are false though. Though theory may claim distinctions between the two, in practice they are one in the same. The idea of the sharing of incomes and government management of resources exists with little distinction from communism and its euphemistic partner socialism. In practice though the same problems plague both as freedom becomes necessarily usurped and trampled on due to abuse of power, economic impossibility, and unforeseen and unintended variables among other things. Because of socialism's inherent failures, it tends to resort to extreme measures. Communism is essentially Marx's name for socialist like systems. The only reason communism is equated with more extreme is mostly due to its acquaintance to the Soviet Union. What is Communism? Again to many this definition is often a matter of great confusion. Some think it means socialism with force, others think it is socialism gone bad. A better definition is a utopian plan to enforce complete economic equality and achieve this by means of forced income redistribution and economic management. In short it is the same idea of socialism operating most often under a smaller branch of the socialist following known strictly as the communists. The ideas are practically the same only the name "communists" tend to attract more ideologues due mostly to a desire among them for alienation from a dissenting opposition, the capitalists, and for a hope of haste in implementing their utopian schemes. As displayed below, communism is in essence and in practice the same thing as its euphemized sister socialism. The Differences Between the Two: The Six Shared Truths: It is hard to fully explain the idea of communism compared to socialism but a few truths are undeniable: (1) Both communism and socialism have an end utopian goal of complete equality in their ideal state. (2) Both communism and socialism employ means of centralized economic managing and income redistribution as their primary means of working toward this so called "equality." (3) Both communism and socialism experience the same types of problems in accomplishing this economic managing - the unintended side effect. (4) Both socialism and communism are structured in such a way that an inherent inequality develops from the administrative top of the power structure for such is necessary to enforce compliance being that human nature creates skepticism, opposition to the control of others, and a desire for free will. (5) When this unequal elite inevitably emerges, the concentration of widespread power in a single space intensifies naturally attracting individuals seeking widespread power or corrupting individuals already in power with the lure of the same widespread power. (6) The intensification of power and control on the upper level necessarily usurps personal freedoms during its expansion.