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From: wooding@daisy.UUCP (Mike Wooding)
Newsgroups: news.misc,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
Summary: communism doesn't exist in USSR?
Message-ID: <2884@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 14:26:27 GMT
References: <3982@kremvax.mosc.cccp> <1658@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Organization: Daisy Systems, Mt. View, CA
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In article <1658@orion.cf.uci.edu>, dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer) writes:
< In article <3982@kremvax.mosc.cccp> gorby@kremvax.mosc.cccp (Mikhail Gorbachev)
< writes:  (Not really.  This was an April fools message that I didn't
< find humorous)
< >
< >    For some time it has been apparent that Socialism is a dismal
< >failure.  I am convinced that the fundamental internal contradiction of
< >Socialism lies in Marx's famous dictum "From each according to his
< >abilities, to each according to his need."  So simple.  So humane
< >sounding.
< >    And so fundamentally evil.
< >
< This is a dictum of communism not socialism.  Communism does not exist
< in the USSR (and the USSR emphatically denies its existence both today
< and in the past).  This dictum has not been followed in the USSR
< (except perhaps under conditions of War-Communism during the Civil
< War).  Almost the entire remainder of the "gorby" posting was based on
< this false premise (that the Soviet system has been based on "From each
< according to he abilities ...).

 Would it be too much to ask for a source? I'd even settle for some
 authoritative spokesman for the USSR :-)

 m wooding