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Originally Posted By: dblboggie
Tell ya what sport, read F.A. Hayek's "The Road To Serfdom" and get back to me with that question.
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Originally Posted By: dblboggie
Clearly you have no clue how long this struggle between the call for the individual liberty of classical liberalism and the cries for an equality of outcomes of collectivist socialists has been going on.
Apparently you believe the latter philosophy can actually be achieved without a totalitarian outcome.
I can assure you that history, objective history at that, blows that position out of the water.
Read F.A. Hayek's book and get a clue.
This have something to do with my question?
That is to say, If I think I know what you mean, I didn't say Mao's great leap forward wasn't authoritarian, I said that it wasn't communism.
How, exactly, was Mao's great leap forward communism? Or the Mao's government, perhaps?
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
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Rivisionism is a scary thing...little wonder why Eisenhower made sure they had everything documented and filmed at the labour camps that were liberated by Allied troops because he realized that people would one day deny human actrocities like the Halocaust ever actually happened and other genocides would be regarded likewise.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible". ~Thomas Aquinas
That is to say, If I think I know what you mean, I didn't say Mao's great leap forward wasn't authoritarian, or that it didn't lead to death, nor that people didn't call it communism, or that they didn't call it communism. I said that it wasn't communism.
How, exactly, was Mao's Great Leap Forward communism?
_________________________ An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes. "Alas!" it cried, as it died,
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
Rivisionism is a scary thing...little wonder why Eisenhower made sure they had everything documented and filmed at the labour camps that were liberated by Allied troops because he realized that people would one day deny human actrocities like the Halocaust ever actually happened and other genocides would be regarded likewise.
Are you talking about me?
Originally Posted By: lu61f3r
That is to say, If I think I know what you mean, I didn't say Mao's great leap forward wasn't authoritarian, or that it didn't lead to death, nor that people didn't call it communism, or that they didn't call it communism. I said that it wasn't communism.
_________________________ An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes. "Alas!" it cried, as it died,
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
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