Well, I actually lived there. I don't apologise for the system
as if you read carefully, it is not what I am proposing for the
future. However, the "Big brother" scene was greately exagurated,
it existed in the "personnal cult" era of Stalin and some
leftovers such as the romanian chap. From
Hi Eva!
Durant wrote:
Jay Hanson:
for this deformity, and why do you think we would
willingly repeat the same mistakes?
Why do you think we won't repeat the same mistakes? I am afraid that
history is on my side Eva.
Jay Hanson knows nothing about history.
actually, after a
By the way, Orwell was a socialist, he was bitterly
disappointed with the deformity that happened,
and what socialist wouldn't be?
However, your contribution would be more informative
if it responded to the points I made when listed the valid reasons
for this deformity, and why do you think we
for this deformity, and why do you think we would
willingly repeat the same mistakes?
Why do you think we won't repeat the same mistakes? I am afraid that
history is on my side Eva.
actually, after a while there is enough experience to do it better,
that is what human progress is
Marx required angelic robots for his utopia: The basic
principle is "from each according to their ability to each according to
their work".
In a democratic system with limited resources
this is a natural way of distribution.
No angels required, only the old suspiciou
From: Eva Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"democratic guarantees" reflects your "Rousseauistic belief in human
perfectibility". What's changed Eva? How can "more of the same" yield
anything other than "more of the same" results?
What changed is that now we have an other historical evidence
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From: Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for this deformity, and why do you think we would
willingly repeat the same mistakes?
Why do you think we won't repeat the same mistakes? I am afraid that
history is on my side Eva.
Jay
Jay Hanson wrote,
. . . Marx required angelic robots for his utopia . . .
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. . . Marx's grand hallucination wound up in the trash can . . .
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Jay,
Both of the above statements have about the same degree of scientific
validity as would a claim that Tammy Faye Bakker wrote
