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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel
Message-ID: <193@gargoyle.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 11:18:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 11:18:52 1985
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In article <7800427@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:

>I cannot speak for Ari Gross, BUT if you ever see a country where
>pre-schoolers are militarized and singing slogans in sweet unison,
>you can bet your subscription to Pravda  :-)  that here is yet
>another implementation of a  familiar model of government. The
>country can be called the USSR, nazi Germany, or Cuba, or Ni-
>caragua, and the slogans may differ, but the political structure,
>the "technology of power"  varies remarkably little.  

You forgot IBM.  OK, Jan, we'll bite:  What is the political model
shared by the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua, Nazi Germany, and Big Blue?  Oh,
I get it, you mean statism = socialism = communism = fascism =
authoritarianism = totalitarianism = dictatorship = benevolent
despotism = oligarchy = absolute monarchy = syndicalism = theocracy =
tyranny = slavery = conscription = democracy = taxation = theft.
*That* political model.
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