Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: What is socialism? Message-ID: <350@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 04:47:17 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.350 Posted: Mon Jan 21 04:47:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:00:25 EST References: <309@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <329@topaz.ARPA> <689@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 > > The epitome of socialism, and a good example of a nation where the > > state-first, individual-last ideals of socialism were taken to their > > logical conclusion, is Germany under National Socialism in the '30's > > and '40's. > > > > --JoSH > > Bullshit. Haven't we gone thru this before? Did you read the posting you're > replying to? > > jeff Yes. I disagreed with its implicit premise, that Socialism can only be defined by "revolutionary" intellectuals, who may dismiss any real-world Socialists or Communists as "heretical" in some way. I don't care what the ivory tower Socialist thinks the world ought to be like; what I am concerned with is the very real mass murder that occurs every time it is put into practice. --JoSH