Hi Mario, Since you have repeated a lot of your logic once again by conveniently avoiding to give an answer to the question "Karl Marx, 19-century Communist Manifesto aside, in todays world of Cafeteria & plural identities, what practically prevents a Christian from being a Communist in political/economic Ideology?", I will discuss this no further.
However, I would like to tell you that you have once again misunderstood what I have written, and this being the 3rd instance with me, I will assume that you don't take the time to properly read since you spend most of it typing away your voluminous views. This is what I had written: "It do not think it is written anywhere in the Communist Manifesto (yea, I had to actually download it and go through it since you love to refer to it ever so often) that Communism has to be brutal and repressive. As per the philosophy, Communism IS egalitarian in nature. .... However, I do not subscribe to the means of obtaining that egalitarianism, ie, the Robin hood method. To me, altruism (which is against human nature) should be voluntary. I'd rather prefer the trickle down effect, and circulation of money to achieve egalitarianism. Plus, ever so often, gems like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (forget the means by which he got rich) donate sums greater than Germany's annual defense budget and India's annual Health budget put together, and that couldn't happen under communism." Yes the first sentence was in jest to your verbatim bible-like belief in the Communist Manifesto, if you didn't get it. Yet, you don't accept that Communism is theoretically egalitarian in nature, when it is clearly stated in the manifesto. Next, the "However" means "By contrast; on the other hand", which means that whatever followed the word "however", was in contrary to Communism. Of course I was referring to Capitalism. Also, would you be kind enough to humour me and answer the following questions with your Goveian Logic? 1) What is the fundamental difference in the Political & Economic ideology between Communism & Socialism? 2) Can an Athiest be a Capitalist? 3) Can a Christian be a fascist? Mario, one thing that experience has taught me is that when Quantity is the focus, there is a definite compromise on Quality. Your writings are an epitome of that lesson. That doesn't mean that you cannot produce quality. Your answer to Sunith's question on what next for India's economy was a gem that made it the first MG piece that I saved for future reference. I hope you can give us more gems like that. Cheers, Aristo. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
