Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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.
You can claim a duck is really a chicken, but that doesn't stop that it's
really a duck.
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