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   From: Paul@nospam.demon.co.uk   
      
   "uri"  wrote in message   
   news:1182758248.022863.65360@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
   > What's so bad about communism? I am for one a communist. In communism   
   > there is freedom, unlike capitalism where people have to work hard to   
   > earn money. Some say there is no freedomn in communist societies   
   > because everything belongs to the government. With everthing belonging   
   > to the government   
      
   A communist society cannot be communist if property is in the hands of a   
   small minority.  Property must be property of the community at large.   
      
   Freedom this and that doesn't mean a lot.  The rich lost freedoms when   
   slavery was abolished, they were no longer free to own human beings, yet   
   other human beings became free.  Freedom is relative.   
      
   The rich will no longer be free to exploit people, so yes, they have lost   
   freedom, but the majority of people have been freed from them.   
      
   > who can stop the government itself from exploiting   
   > people?? This is the very problem with communism.   
      
   The people, as a whole by forming the government themselves, in a   
   participatory democracy.   
      
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