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Originally posted by Spanky
You are talking like you are part of the deluded left that at first embraced Stalin and then when they realized how horrible things went you tried to argue that what happaned was because Stalin was insane and deluded and what happened was not the logical extension of the communist philosophy.
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It is when you post like this that you are at your most offensive.
[I'd say, any other comments, pro or con?]
I just said that I don't think Stalin truly believed that the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few. I am of the opinion that he was (among other things) opportunistic, power-hungry, and quite a bit megalomaniacal. OTOH, as Bilmore argued, he may also (or instead) have been a true believer.
Go fuck yourself.
S_A_M
ETA: I am not and have never been even a socialist, much less a communist, but I have to say this: The Soviet Union was not "the logical extension of the communist philosophy" any more that the U.S.A. is "the logical extension" of the writings of John Locke.
