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To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Meerman, Tiemen:
> Some time ago, you wrote:
> > I wouldn't use the term "Commie-SF", because most of east-block
> > science fiction is very critical to communism. SF was one of the
> > areas in socialst countries, where you could hide some anti-communist
> > criticism in your books. Like in...
> >
> True, SF is often an extrapolation of modern day goings-on, and can
> hide behind that same fact! [plausible, yet not real]
I think that explains too why eastern SF was so surreal ?
(for lack of a better word)
> Speaking of anti-commie: anybody read Solhzenitsyns (wonder if I got
> the name right) Gulag-archipelago?
Yes. I recommend it. His point is to establish that all
the terrors that happened under STalin, began under Lenin.
He wanted to shoot a hole in the idea that commienism was
okay, Lenin was okay, Stalin screwed it up. He does a good
job of establishing that Lenin started the horrors.
> Are we more than the twice-squared-sum of our neurons and dendrites?
> And would that surplus be existent in a human-manufactured element?
yes and yes.
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