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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (254239)	5/10/2002 9:45:24 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Either way you slice it, any ideology that impinges on freedom as defined in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence is to be avoided. I prefer to be called a conservative.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (254239)	5/10/2002 11:05:59 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769667

RE:"In a socialist or communist country, on the other hand, a conservative or right winger is a hardline communist who resists change to communist doctrine while a liberal or progressive is one seeking to make changes that relax the system." Oh, that explains why the left in the United States and Western Europe carried water for the Soviets and Communist Chinese. What you also do not take into account, is that Mao and Stalin were on the ground floor in the Communist Parties in their countries. They were replacing former "repressive" governments, and founding "progressive" governments. At the time Progressives understood and recognized that lackeys of the former regimes would have to be killed. "We cannot afford to give ourselves moral airs when our most enterprising neighbour... humanely and judiciously liquidates a handful of exploiters and speculators to make the world safe for honest men."-George Bernard Shaw Calling repressive Communist governments "Conservative" was manufactured by liberal members of the Western Press, trying to re-write history, and their now somewhat embarassing history of supporting these regimes.