Well, I misunderstood you, I thought you were saying it was OK.
Now, "what I have learned from my study of historical events" is a rather vague question. I'm not sure, really, what you were looking for. I'm afraid I haven't any specially good ideas for future targets of state repression. Get organized, obviously, but we don't even know how to do this under relatively democratic conditions.
--- martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:09 AM, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
>
> > Repression and
> > tyranny don't become OK when they are carried out
> by
> > so-called self-styled socialist or Communist
> > governments. The maazing thing to me is that this
> > still apparently needs to be said at all.
>
> Who said that repression and tyranny were 'ok'? I
> think that some
> suspect that the 'change' that came with Stalinism
> or any other
> 'communist' state would not have occurred without
> carnage, but that
> doesn't mean that the carnage is 'OK'. I asked you
> what you learned
> from your analysis of historical events and you came
> back and said that
> it was evil. That hardly needed to be said either. I
> was hoping for
> some lesson that would provide hope that the
> 'kulaks' of the next
> tyrannical repression might be able to survive.
>
> Martin
>
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