Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote:
The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian
governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities.

The terms socialism and communism where not vandalized, they are and
always have been synonmymous with authoritarianism.

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There is a lot of truth to that. Take a look at Hillary Clinton's
rhetoric about wanting to "take" oil company profits and tax revenues
lost by tax cuts and wanting to redistribute them more fairly. That is
Democracy in action. The mob being whipped up to support taking other
people's private property for themselves.

So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome it's
return?




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