At 08:39 PM 7/19/01, Andy wrote:
>On 19 Jul 2001, at 16:25, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> > So far, pretty much all socialist utopias have rapidly ended as
> > totalitarian regimes, and I don't see much chance of that changing
> > until there is a change in the baser nature of man.
>
>Ahem, all LARGE SCALE socalist utopias...
>
>The Kibbutz movement in Israel has survived fifty years, with much
>of it's origional drive and purpose intact, and is an important part of
>Isralie society....
>
>Communism works fine on the micro scale.
Or, one could argue that the success of the Kibbutz movement may have
something to do with the religious beliefs of the people involved helping
them to overcome their baser nature . . .
>For the macro scale, we need a new paragram (sp)
paradigm?
--Ronn! :)
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