In These Times

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• • 31 Oct 05
  • 5:23 am

  Discussing politics and economics with a Liberal is like discussing nuclear physics with a turnip. I would like to point out that Nuclear [That word our Pres can't quite say] Physics was largely the product of liberal minds like Einstein. These same minds tend to be the product of those horrible institutions- Universities, peddling their horrible knowledge with all its confusing intricacies. Further more, this obsession with communist Russia as some demonstration that socialist idea are a historical failure is a pathetic mis reading of history. The USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship, and anyone who actually reads Marx, rather than relying …

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• • 31 Oct 05
  • 10:37 am

  Thanks for the interesting info Whattheheck, I will check out Cladwell's book. I have been living in Europe for the past two years and am awake to the intractable social problems here that are tearing numerous rifts in 'society', particularly islamic extremism in light of Madrid and London. It makes for a delicate situation, to resist the reactionary tendencies. I just don't have much stomach for... throwing the baby out with the pisswater as Cline says? Systems are only as good as the people who implement them I think, but naturally there is no political Shangri-la.

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