>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. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** If the courts started interpreting the Second Amendment the way they interpret the First, we'd have a right to bear nuclear arms by now.--Ann Coulter