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   From: derekcurrie@*NOSPAM*mac.com   
      
   OFF TOPIC!   
      
   But interesting...   
      
   :-D   
      
   In article ,   
    C Lund  wrote:   
      
   > FYI: China isn't a communist country. They're totalitarian, certainly,   
   > but not communist.   
      
   Actually, I am hard pressed to think of a truly communist country that   
   ever existed. They have all gone totalitarian. It would take an expert   
   psychiatrist and an expert on social interactions to explain how two   
   diametrically opposed, left and right, methods of ruling people are   
   consistently joined into a combination that makes the best of the worst   
   of both systems.   
      
   Anyway, they idealistically call themselves communist, and they   
   certainly act like the 'communists' we have come to expect from history.   
      
   If you know of a communist state that actually worked, please let me   
   know. And no, I don't even consider the Lennonist version of the Soviet   
   Union to be truly communist.   
      
   :-D   
      
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