Re: Modern Marvels

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Wilson wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> Mr. Sherman seems to be upset that your forebears purchased property 
>>>> and passed it to you as they shuffled off this mortal coil. 
Apparently 
>>>> this property is what, according to Mr. Sherman, enables your
monastic 
>>>> lifestyle. The fact that you do not have to struggle for your daily 
>>>> bread as well as the inability of the cor****ate demons to strip money

>>>> off your back for their gaming seems not to sit well with Mr.
Sherman. 
>>>> Somewhat telling I suspect.
>>>
>>> I believe everyone should be made to earn their living. Only hard
labor 
>>> and suffering can build true moral character.
>>
>> Mr. Sherman is as one with Pol Pot and other communist indoctrinated 
>> despots. Yea, let everyone labor for the benefit of the whole, even if
it 
>> is only those at the top (the rulers) who reap most of the benefits.
What 
>> does it matter if millions are murdered in a good cause! Mr. Sherman
will 
>> preside over the "killing fields".
>>
> Well, Pol Pot went far beyond what I would suggest.
>
> One of the reasons why countries like the Soviet Union were never truly 
> communist was the creation of a new ruling class to replace the deposed 
> ruling class.

The new ruling class was necessary in order to implement the reforms that 
were at the heart of the system. All utopias need coercion.

> Lenin and his successors were interested in power, not improving the lot

> of the proletariat.

Not true. They were ideologues first and foremost who believed in what
they 
were doing, at least at first. But the realities of human nature turned
them 
into monsters. It would be the same for you too if you tried to do what
they 
did despite your best intentions.

Never try to make excuses for what happened in the Soviet Union. It was
one 
of the greatest undertakings in the history of mankind. They tried as hard

as possible to make it work. The belief in communism was more of a
religion 
than anything else and when the belief failed the Soviet Union collapsed 
like a house of cards.

>> But the Great Ed Dolan likes hard labor. He can sit around and watch 
>> others do it all day long. And if they suffer ... well, that is part of

>> the hard labor, is it not? What is truly despicable are those who seem
to 
>> enjoy hard labor. I think they must be crazy as Minnesota loons.
>>
> Loons are not at all crazy.

It is popular expression here in Minnesota.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota