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To: TimF who wrote (328990)	3/17/2007 8:52:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578022

In theory, not in practice. In practice as well. The main means of production where collectively owned, and controlled by the government. Collectively owned......means owned by the people. In fact industries were controlled by party oligarchs who benefitted financially. In a communist system, there are not supposed to be classes because the people own everything. In the Soviet Union, in fact, there was a very definite upper class. They were the ones who owned the dashas, the summer homes of the Muscovites, and shopped at the upscale stores in Moscow. That's the definition of a oligarch dictatorship, and not a communist society. Again, the right has everything confused and muddied up. Socialism doesn't imply democracy or freedom. You could have a democratic socialist institution. You could even have a relatively free socialist institution if its small and voluntary, but you can also have a socialist dictatorship, and that's how socialism has existed on the very large scale in the real world. BS. On a large scale, socialism has operated within the framework of democracy and coexisted with capitalism. You are just regurgitating rightwing propaganda. Its an example of a dictatorship and why that can be negative on a lot of different levels. and it was even more negative because of the socialist aspects. Tim, don't feed me the crap your party feeds you. I am better educated and more informed than that.