Tim May on the end of a rope.,

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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James A. Donald:
> >Yet you cite (as evidence that I am a liar) Ian McKay's
> >article on the Catalonian anarchists, in which he concedes
> > that the anarchists wound up creating what most people
> > would call a state, indeed a terrorist dictatorship, but
> > argues that I am lying in that such a state was a good
> > thing, and run by nice people, deeply concerned for the
> > welfare of the masses

mattd:
> I maintain that someone relying on your site for
> information on Spain,without other sources,would be misled
> at the very least.To leave out is another way to lie.

Is it a lie to neglect to mention that Adolf Hitler was kind
to dogs? Or that Stalin was courageous and did well in
school?  Or that there were lots of women that Jeffrey Dahmer
did not torture, kill, and eat?  It is certainly true that
all sorts of nice people had all sorts of good intentions in
Catalonia, but when they attempted to implement those good
intentions, they mostly found themselves using the old
familiar methods of recently existent socialism, and when
they did not use those methods, socialism did not work.  That
is the important truth about Catalonia, and all the other
truths, the truths that some people were sincere, the truths
that some people had good intentions, are irrelevant.   I do
mention those truths, briefly.  Unlike the sources you prefer
I do not go into lengthy spiels describing those wonderful
good intentions while ignoring the actual outcome. 

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