-- At 06:32 PM 9/21/2000 +0100, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote:
That was precisely my point: socialism doesn't necessarily mean centralised statism, wage controls or limited speech.
Yes it does. Socialists may not always intend that outcome, but that is the outcome they are necessarily going to get, want it or not. And the reaction of Western socialists to real life repressive governments shows that most western socialists do indeed want exactly that. Their love of Castro turned to hate only when Castro liberalized Cuba. They blandly overlooked the crimes of Khmer Rouge until the Soviet Union and its sattelites quarreled with them. They worshipped the Sandinistas, while fiercely condemning Latin American governments that were vastly less repressive. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ClROFDNesfKcj4P6CuzFA1MoIXFM/ln0FMhQvtHj 4m0R+SEKZozbQjJEYz8ypzb1eQbEjBV/jqJMaBVif