X-Message-Number: 23176 From: Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:23:17 EST Subject: Re: message# 23164 (James Swayze) >From: >Subject: Re: message# 23164 (James Swayze) > James, you are a socialist. Don't be ashamed to admit it. At least I would > know where you are coming from. In some of your post you claim to respect > capitalism but there is always that "but"! After that you go on to express > your socialist world-view which at best "allows" people to keep some of > their > money and at worst creates a poverty stricken slum like the former U.S.S.R. > and current Cuba and North Korea by banning capitalism. > Jerry > > North Korea is not a socialist (equalitarian) state, it is an extremist military dictatorship, it is no more socialist than Hitler's national socialism, the nazi was ultra right, not on the left side. Cuba has done some good job in science and education. What would it get to if there was not the blockade put in place by the US and continuously promoted by the Martini's Mafia? USSR was no more a socialist state after Lenin's death. Stalin was more akin to Hitler than anything else. Saddam's Iraq was ruled on the Stalin model and no one called it socialist. Only with Gorbachev USSR came back to the socialist ideas, but it was short lived. The only true example of a near socialist state has been given for 40 years by the Swedes. They have reached the highest per capita income and the best living standard. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23176