I don't wish to argue with you (I've already stated that there is nothing near a communist state currently in existence, nor has there ever been). We aren't going to see eye to eye - ever - so what's the use?
But, Obama? Marxist? >From Wikipedia: "Marx hypothesized that socialism would eventually give way to >a communist stage of social development, which would be a classless, >stateless, humane society erected on common ownership and the principle of >'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs'." I just don't see Barack moving that way... I do like you, however, and would never think to block you, even though we fundamentally disagree on virtually every salient issue there is. Except cameras. Pentaxians unite, you have nothing to lose but your, your... well, I can't think of a humorous rhyme with "chains". :-) Cheers, frank the lefty On November 17, 2015 2:31:46 PM EST, Collin B <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote: >>On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Collin B <collinb at >brendemuehl.net> >wrote: >>> Commumism was never containable >> >>Communism WAS contained. >> >>Dan Matyola > >Not exactly. It spread from China to N. Korea. It spread through >VietNam. >It is maintained in Cuba. The Shining Path remains at large. > >Of course, one might say that it was not allowed global conquest. >So it is true in a sense. But it was thought/taught that containment >would >strangle it into oblivion. >That never happened. Containment was ineffective. >It took Regan's budgetary challenge to break up the USSR. But PROC, N. >Korea, & Cuba are still with us. >And now we have a Marxist president who considers a national reduction >in >wages to be normative. >And "The Nation" continues to publish from its historic (yes, this is >true) >Stalinist frame of mind. >(That wrag includes Sid Blumenthal, advisor to Hillary. Same frame of >mind >and a working relationship.) > >Anyway, I think I'm blocked by a number of PDMLers here wrt my >perspectives. >Alas. >Hope there's no hard feelings. It's not like I'm speaking Nikonese or >Canonese in our midst ... > >Collin -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
