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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Communism as historical tragedy
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 00:23:00 EST
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>>[tedrick@ucbvax]
>>>It seems absurd to me to think that  the  communists  could  have
>>>overturned the Tsarist regime without some external factor like a
>>>major war playing a role.
>>
>>*Communists* couldn't, with or without war. As it was, Bolsheviks
>>took *no* part in toppling the Tzar. Not one of them.
>
>I don't understand why Jan ...  seems to misunderstand what I
>said. I never said the communists *DID* overthrow the Tsar.

You are right, you didn't, and I should have stated  that  before
saying  what I said. It still needed saying, for two reasons: the
historical delusion that  the  Communists  abolished  Tsarism  is
widely  spread;  and comparisons on the net of the two systems as
if natural alternatives help to keep this alive. Of course,  this
is  not  your  fault.  I *half*-misunderstood you: i.e., I wasn't
sure what you meant . So I sat between two chairs  in  my  reply,
which is always a mistake.

		Jan Wasilewsky