<DIV>Ideologically hot "news" never becomes stale. As long as capitalism exist, it will be a saleable issue, that communism is Evil. On the other hand, ideologically cold news never becomes hot. The US killed 4 million people in Indochina in the Vietnam war, and you may even find this acknowledged on paragraph 17, p. A 14 of the newspaper story, but it's no big deal. It doesn't show that we're _bad._  jks Michael Pugliese <debsian@pacbell.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:13:14 -0400, Chris Doss <ITSCHRIS13@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > I think it's because everbody already knows about Stalinist and Maoist > slaughters. It's like posting something saying "News Flash: Nazis Killed > Six Million!" Then why the huge scandal in France when, "The Black Book of Communism, " edited by ex-maoist Coutois, bacame a best seller? That ex-Trot Premier Jospin attacked in their Parliament? http://www.fiu.edu/~yaf/coomunismbooksells.html http://www.fiu.edu/~yaf/teflon.html http://www.nybooks.com/contents/20030612 Orlando Figes, Reconstructing Hell Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum -- Michael Pugliese "Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).