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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 01:15:31 -0400
From: hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: non servium & Marxism - FOUND ON THE WEB


Eric, et. al.

I don't know from what country this person came from or what the "slow
movements" in society are about, but whether
Marxisim or something else created the USSR, everything I ever knew about it
implied violence, stealth and murder to bring secret cells of conspirators
to power.

Maybe post-modern Marxists want to make nice and empower communities so
every community will see that its
members have title to the property, tools ,and facilities in which they live
and work, and decide their communal future with votes that cannot be bought,
or maybe a lottery. What would happen if they chose Judges, juries, and
military commanders with the money-is-freespeech methods of the
Republicrats?

Perhaps in a few more decades no one will remember what Marxists did for
Eastern Europe and China.

In the meantime Marxists need new clothing, a new name, new writers, new
heroes.

Regards,
Hugh

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FOUND ON THE WEB:

> You see, I came to this country in 1970, keep my eyes open, but did not
> absorb the American fervence that WE can change anything. IMO we live in a
> totalitarian (hypocritical) dictatorship where the one party is split into
> two. And the system is so firm that the man in the street cannot do a damn
> thing. I have my experiences: lived under nazis and commis. Private
> capitalism is not too much better than state capitalism, the slogans are
> different.
> As an environmentalist I hated those demonstrations in the 70s with
singing
> and dancing, just as I don't think positively about the proposed
> demonstrations now.
> The "let them eat cake" changed to "let them shout". In '2000+Us' you
cannot
> replay a French revolution (thank god) and less than cutthroat kipover
does
> not work. (There are slow movements, however, eating their way into
> society).



   

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