On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:23 PM, "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Maybe you should have persevered to the end, viz.:
>
> "...Now we may cautiously reassess the brave attempts to reach for socialism in various countries. They were done under harsh, adverse conditions, under threat of intervention, facing hostile propaganda. But let us remember: if socialism failed, so did capitalism. If communism was accompanied by loss of life, so was and is capitalism. But with capitalism, we have no future worth living, while socialism still offers hope to us and our children."
Oh please