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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Freedom of faith (Communism) WARNING FLAMES!
Message-ID: <1559@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 14:58:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.1559
Posted: Tue Oct  7 14:58:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 10:54:56 EDT
References: <1581@cwruecmp.UUCP> <15885@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1543@watdragon.UUCP> <293@plx.UUCP>
Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <293@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP writes:
>> 	I will assume that this is intended to be a parody of the attitudes of
>> many un-informed "McCarthyesque" americans.  Unfortunately, to be
>> successful, a satire must exaggerate the opinions it is supposed to make
>> fun of.  Too many people actually believe this for it to be a true parody.
>> Better luck next time.
>
>WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO CALL PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS 
>"UN-INFORMED!!!!!"
>[Rantings about liberals, Bill Buckley, etc.]

I said "UN-INFORMED!!!!!", because to believe that ALL communists are
trying to take over the world, you have to be extremely un-informed.

Unfortunately, the mentality that produced the communist witch-hunts in the
1950's still exists in many places.  This is based on one over-riding
belief:
			All communists support the Soviet Union.
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	This is simply bullshit.  Their are Communist parties in a number of
Western European countries, that are completely separate from the soviet
union.  Communism was a response to the failings of the capitalist economic
system.  It has been around a lot longer than the USSR.
	In Canada, there is the CPC-ML (Communist Party of Canada - Marxist
Lenninists) which regularly attacks BOTH the US and the USSR because they
both have imperialist policies.

The point of my posting was to attack this belief.  I was commenting on
someone that had said that communists should not be allowed in the US
because they were out to destroy the country and take over the world.
(probably with drugs or pornography or something :-)

	Bruce Kirby
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