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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:51:00 -0000, "westprog"  wrote:   
      
   >"Ray Cunningham"  wrote in message   
   >> > Asimov in his debunking of 1984 complained that it wasn't really SF at   
   >all,   
   >> > just an attack on the USSR, and hence a Bad Thing.   
   >   
   >> It can't be both?   
   >   
   >It can be, and was. Asimov liked his SF shiny and optimistic and   
   >Campbellian. He also had a soft spot for his birthplace, which left him   
   >uncomfortable with attacks on Stalin - which for an American liberal, feel   
   >like McCarthyism.   
      
   American liberals must be even stranger than I thought. Dictators are anathema   
   to liberals, since they represent the antithesis of liberalism.   
      
   But to British socialists like Orwell, Stalin was a betrayer of socialism. His   
   message may be summed up in the epigram, "Capitalism is the ruthless   
   exploitation of man by man, and in communism it is the opposite way round."   
      
      
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