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Subject: Re: Do Russians ALWAYS lie?
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 12:34:57 EST
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> The Soviets are interested in communism, not socialism.
> Socialism is for the tiresome bourgeois bores at evening parties.

The Soviets are NOT interested in communism.  There government/society is
no where near a communist government.

By Definition (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary):
communism: 1 a: a theory advocating elimination of private property.
	   1 b: a system in which goods are owned in common and are
		available to all as needed.

This is what true communism is about.  However, Lennin and the rest have
perverted it into the following:
	   2 a: a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism
		and Marxism-Lennism that is the ofical ideology
		of the U.S.S.R.

Its just amazing how usage of words can change and be perverted.  Why
didn't they just call themselves Marxists and leave it at that?

(Maybe the just wanted some respect.)

			-- Brad Brahms
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