On 4/27/05, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Stenquist mused: > > > > > > > I don't know on what you base that comment, Paul. I don't know what > > > they "considered" themselves, but they were neither communists nor > > > Marxists. > > > > > I base that comment on the name that the Soviets gave to their party. > > Perhaps it was a bad translation, but when they spoke of their party in > > English, they'd called it the Communist Party. > > Which is about as accurate as "Democrat" or "Republican" in the USA > (and similar political labels in European countries). They're just names. > > Do you know the difference between Communism & Capitalism? > Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Buit under Communism, > it's the other way round. >
Anyone remember what East Germany called itself? The German Democratic Republic. They ~may~ have been a republic (I really don't know), but they sure as hell weren't Democratic! <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
