Re: Modern Marvels

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "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.[...]
>>
> Mr. Ed Dolan really needs to get out more to learn about human nature.

Mr. Sherman needs to reread his Machiavelli. And then he needs to read
lots 
and lots of history. There is no other way.

Regards,

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