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To: Scumbria who wrote (143369)	5/7/2001 4:50:08 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I have never commented on San Francisco one way or the other. Communism, or Marxism- Leninism, is inherently revolutionary and dictatorial. That was the argument between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, over the use of "bourgeois democracy" and incremental socialism. Lenin himself would not allow rival Leftist parties to participate in elections, and in some instances executed their members. The big argument between Stalin and Trotsky was over whether their should be "permanent revolution", or the consolidation of gains in one country. The use of incentives was generally approved by the Poliburo, although not completely egalitarian. Stalin was determined to nationalize and develop industry, in pursuit of autarchy, to make the Soviet Union more independent. Khruschev, who had been a loyal henchman, criticized Stalin for turning the apparatus of the police state on the nomenklatura, and disrupting the Party. Leftists throughout the world recognized Stalin as "the real thing", although some disapproved of dictatorship........

To: Scumbria who wrote (143369)	5/7/2001 5:03:10 PM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Both want all the power to be in the government. Socialism. The difference is the personal freedoms afforded by our constitution. The schizo behavior comes from the Californians. They want personal freedom without the dirt that comes with it. Cheap, abundant energy, for example, that should magically appear without affecting the environment. Drugs, sex(with no questions asked, after all, it's nobody's business), with the taxpayers picking up the bill for any diseases acquired (more aids research etc..). alan w