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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (8553)	3/14/2001 8:49:40 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 82486

I can see how they would see things that way, but the new communist ruling party probably wont see itself as transitory. Very few governments see themselves as transitory, but Communism is not proving to be a long-lived phenomenon. A hundred years ago it was an untested theory. Today it is practically dead; how many really communist countries are left? China, in name only and moving away from it as fast as a country that size can move without shaking apart at the seams. That leaves Cuba and North Korea, both pretty marginal. Feudalism dominated the world for centuries. I suspect that history will see revolutionary Communism as a phenomenon that was called into existence by the refusal of reactionary feudal regimes to accept social and economic evolution. When faced with such a regime, any alternative seems a good one. When no such regime exists, revolutionary excess has little appeal, and Communist zeal fades away.