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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <2279@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 20:33:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 20:33:36 1985
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In article <decwrl.120> mahoney@bach.DEC writes:
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>Thank you for changing your term to stalinist.  Marx as I stated before
>had nothing but loathe for peasants and the agrian society.  The poor
>man must be rolling in his grave over what people today laughingly call
>Marxism or Communism.  ...

Stalinism is merely pragmatic Marxism.

>I don't agree that the US should send in troops
>though that is what has caused most of the hard feelings against the US
>in South America.  Also our record down there for setting up governments
>has not been that good.  It is time the US realized that a regime that
>calls itself Communist is not going to always be bad.
>
>   Brian Mahoney

Show me one communist government that isn't bad and I'll eat my
copy of Das Kapital.  Communism is, by definition, bad government.

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