[lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 23 00:25:36 PDT 2003



>Well, these are interesting questions: at what point in time should one
>have known that Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, Stalin, et cetera were
>bloodthirsty maniacs who had no more idea about how to build a utopian or
>even a progressive than does my dog?
>
>My answer is "1924." By the time the Boshevik Inner Party decides that they
>should--for their own short-term political gain--suppress Lenin's
>Testament, it is clear that nothing good can come out of the Communist
>enterprise.
>
>There are others who put the answer at "1956"--that it was OK to be a
>deluded fool up until the time Nikita Sergeyevitch ripped open the curtain.
>
>I can't see how anybody rational and reasonable can put forward any date
>after 1956, however.
>
>
>Brad DeLong
>___________________________________

My God do you live in a self-enclosed dream world. I invite you to visit a Russian collective farm and ask them what they think about Communism, or ask a pensioner begging in the Moscow metro. No doubt you will conclude that they are irrational and unreasonable, or possibly blood-thirsty maniacs. Or, possibly, you will conclude that you don't have a goddamn clue about anything that happens outside the borders or the United States, nay, your office, nay, your head.

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