XPost: alt.politics, alt.freedom, alt.politics.socialism   
   XPost: alt.politics.republican   
   From: laojim@peoplepc.com   
      
   On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:18:19 -0700, Patriot Games   
    wrote:   
      
   > "uri"  wrote in message   
   > news:1180530280.744621.238650@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...   
   >> Communism is a nice idea on paper, utopian in principle. Communism   
   >> wants a society run for the benefit of all, without money and in which   
   >> goods and services are free for all regardless of family, wealth or   
   >> occupation   
   >   
   > Which is why it can't work.  People aren't equal.  Some people work   
   > harder than others and feel they therefore deserve more.   
   >   
   >> Sadly, no nation has ever come past the state-part, since power   
   >> corrupts and the state ends up taking everything and starving the   
   >> people (russia, china, north korea, cuba etc)...   
   >   
   >   
   Be that as it may, isn't that the direction to head in? You can't   
   seriously propose that since there is tendency for the state to be   
   oppressive we should abandon any attempt to move in the direction of an   
   ideal.  There is a good solid record of success.   
      
      
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