David Mandl wrote:
>
> Wow. The activists who did time in mental hospitals (including
> people I knew) might disagree with this.
>
> --Dave.
>
> >From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
> >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Gulag query
> >Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:51:44 -0400
> >
> >Well, exaggeration certainly. Live in the USSR during the Brezhnev era was
> >pretty damn good. People looked at defectors with pity.
>
Probably many others would too. Probably several million would have agreed with you. And that still doesn't refute Chris's point. There will in the future be better regimes than _either_ the USSR _or_ the US that nevertheless fuck up in ways that will make things miserable for part of their population.
Carrol