Leigh has to bring in the global history of US imperialism with the suggestion that the body count makes Soviet totalitarianism better than US imperialism. That is a tired and boring and fruitless discussion that is irrelevant to the question at hand. Moreover, it is a fundamentally stupid position.
The tendency I belong to had a slogan, when the USSR still existed, that said: Neither Washington Nor Moscow but International Socialism! A bit dated and quaintly phrased now but the sentiment is right. No one here, not even Luke, defends US imperialism.
Comparing something no one defends to something that is also indefensible but also totally over is just stupid. So maybe it was rude to tell Leigh to shut up, but this is not worth as much discussion as I have even had to give it here. So I was annoyed.
I apologize if I was rude. But let's bury this line of discussion. US imperialism sucks. Stalinist totalitarism sucked. The Gulag was a terrible crime. So is Gitmo, but they're not very close. End of story, jks
--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin, are you channeling Bill O'Reilly?
>
> On 6/20/05, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > oh, shut up.
> >
> > --- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --
> Jim Devine
> "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go
> your own way and let
> people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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