At 08:02 PM 3/4/00 -0500, Petro wrote:
> ? wrote:
>>People on this list think they've proven communism wrong, but
>>they've always avoided any real confrontation with it. No ones
>>strives to understand if communism might have something
>>valuable to say-- that's what passes for an open mind here.
>
> Maybe we strove to understand it before we came here. At
>least one frequent poster has admitted to having socialist leanings
>before he saw the light.
>
> Maybe it's been tried, and not only found wanting, but found
>utterly useless, founded on lies and misconceptions, and just
>generally a *really* *dangerous* idea.
It was tried in the US - before it was the US. Read "Of Plymouth
Plantation" by Wm. Bradford. It didn't work.
Reese
