> And neither of us would call Marxism a religion. I would call > Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism the official state (pseudo) religion of the > former USSR though... and it was evil, EVIL I say! >
Please leave Marx out of it. He died in 1883 (34 years before the Russian Revolution), he never expected (nor would he have approved) Communism to come first to an agrarian, largely pre-industrial country like Russia, and he would have been appalled, infuriated, outraged, disgusted, shocked and in every other possible way rejected everything Lenin and Stalin and their successors did in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
