From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Marcus Andersson Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: , <333a733fcdfce696b4a6019f4ee60cce@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] ISP filtering - update Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:17:00 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4eb7c5aa-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote in message news:<333a733fcdfce696b4a6019f= 4ee60cce@plan9.ucalgary.ca>... > > There was nothing rational or scientific about socialism. Socialism i= s > > based on fear. Stalin and Lenin were neither sane nor scientific. Con= sider > > their biology program as an example. >=20 > Marx and Engels were scientific. Lenin too, to the extent that he > contemplated on the previous two's musings. Socialism (and Communism > for that matter) are based on a very solid theoretical background. > Pity they didn't force you to read "Das Kapital" in high school :) >=20 > Ultimately it didn't work in Russia for the same reason it wouldn't > work in Texas -- the people aren't right for it there. People aren't right for it anywhere. > It works on other places -- look at Sweden. =20 No it doesn't. > So many russians come to > Canada to discover that indeed socialism could be, and is, > implemented. Why would they discover that in Canada of all places?=20 > But I digress. What was the original topic of discussion again? Oh, > right, Plan 9...