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To: KLP who wrote (10205)	1/28/2006 4:16:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541347

I told you one of the KEY elements of communism. I'm amazed you missed it- but you did, even though it was posted to you. Perhaps I should remind you? Message 22108803 And you only know I am "far left"? Why am I the issue? Why does it matter what I am? I'm not trying to figure out what you are- I don't need to know. What you write is easily parsed on its own. As Karen has already told you (and I hate to repeat this, since I already referred to it- in a post to you) taking from the rich and giving to the poor is not necessarily communistic. It could very well be socialistic- it could be democratic socialism, it could be Christian socialism, or any other kind of socialism and that is not the same thing as communism. Socialism can embrace private ownership, but also more state response to the general welfare, and assisting the poor via the state to a greater degree than capitalists and libertarians would embrace, but without the total group ownership component of communism. I can think of many government figures I consider far right, or if not far right, then dangerously imperial- but I see no point in arguing about it with you, since you aren't even using accepted terms for communism. We're not going to get anywhere discussing something with more shades of gray.