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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
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Subject: Re: What is socialism?
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 22:09:10 EST
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> >The epitome of socialism, ...
> >--JoSH
> 
> ...  Goebbels spent much ink on explaining ...
>  And you fell for it!!!  
> 					David Rubin

Nope, I never read Goebbels.  I just applied the rule of thumb,
"If a government kills more than a million of its own citizens
inside a ten-year period, it's probably socialist."

> P.S. JoSH's critically wrong assumption is that all "state-first,
> individual-last" philosophies are socialist.  Actually, there are many
> varieties, some socialist, some not.  The Nazis fall in the latter
> category.

Right.  I use the term as a catchall. If you want to nitpick about the
various denominations of that religion, go ahead, I won't argue about it.

--JoSH