Good question. What's the j18 'purpose'? To have a good 'street party'?
Right on! To complain about some excesses of laissez-faire capitalism,
e.g., capitalist monopolies? Good idea. To urge that capitalism be
replaced in our 200 countries with more communism/Marxism? Bad idea. VERY
bad idea. To tout the case for 'anarchism'? Russia is trying it--with
frightfully bad results. Another very bad idea.
So what GOOD idea could j18 support? How about something like, 'CIVILIZE
Capitalism'? Keep its vast productive energy but harness it to assure the
goals of a civilized society. Prune away its bad features, keep the good.
Shape it with policies that both encourage its powerful hydraulic drive to
prosperity AND guarantee, along with that broad national affluence, justice
and plenty for ALL.
Charles
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At 05:53 AM 4/8/99 +0100, you wrote:
>What is up Charles? This list is not about communism as far as I know.
>Let's stick to the topic. Or maybe we are all burnt out on this list and
>the topic is lost. What is its purpose and if it has a purpose can we begin
>to focus?
>
>
>At 01:06 AM 4/8/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> Has there ever been a communist country that wasn't also a dictatorship?
>>I seem to recall something about the 'dictatorship of the
>>proletariat'--which always seems to appear in the person of a SINGLE
>>tyrant, e.g., Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, et al.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>>At 07:01 AM 4/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>>Isn't the very term 'communist dictatorship' in the case of the
>>>former Soviet Union, North Korea and China false? The label
>>>'communist' is a weapon, used by the US government, for example, in
>>>its anti-communist propaganda. These were or continue to be in the
>>>case of North Korea and China primarily dictatorships, and are not
>>>what I define as communist societies.
>>>
>>>Anita.
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