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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving the Promised Land
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Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 00:53:53 EDT
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> I'm not arguing for or against socialism. If the USSR, et al, are examples
> of anything, they appear to be better examples of the failure of coercion
> than of anything else.
> Dan C Duval
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Unfortunately, the USSR is an example of the SUCCESS of coercion.  It is
very good at it.  The world's largest prison has a negligible escape
rate, and earns political capital and other concessions by ransoming
its prisoners, very very slowly.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan