Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:16 -0800
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800
> > Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> > You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism.  Please see my
> >> > previous posts about this.
> >> 
> >>     You're thinking there is a difference is the mistake.
> > 
> > And there are 50 years of history in the Eastern Europe to prove it.
> 
> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither
> is any other economic and political model combination.  Correlation
> without causation.

You believe in coincidences? I don't. And I think socialism *was* the
cause of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe.

Regards,
Andrei
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