Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site uwvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!uwvax!myers From: myers@uwvax.ARPA Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Do Russians ALWAYS lie? Message-ID: <192@uwvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 13:40:21 EST Article-I.D.: uwvax.192 Posted: Wed Apr 11 13:40:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 07:21:30 EST References: <2678@azure.UUCP> <1851@rlgvax.UUCP> <187@uwvax.ARPA> <981@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 9 The point of my article was that the so-called "actually existing socialisms" in the world do NOT consider themselves communist societies -- just on the way there, and supposedly getting closer. Remember, the perjorative ways certain words get used in the US have very little relationship to the more technically precise forms used in high-falutin intellectual scribblings or in the orthodox positions of political parties.