Priorities

[joanna bujes]

At 05:46 PM 05/14/2002 -0400, Thomas wrote:
>Doug, do you intend by this statement that since the
>Soviet Union is no longer "alive" that we should just
>stop talking about it...that it is useless to discuss
>what happened there and the model upon which it was
>built?  Did Stalin give rise to the undemocratic
>nature of the Soviet Union or did the undemocratic
>nature of the Soviet Union give rise to Stalin?  Isn't
>it important to study and discuss this phenomena
>whether we defend that model (or, at least, some
>aspects of it) or a radically different model of
>socialism/communism ?

It's not about censoring criticism of Stalinism. It's about the fact that 
WWIII is brewing in the Middle East and that our focus should probably be 
there....or at least on something that we could do something about...like 
controlling the rogue  U.S.

Joanna