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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: This is Not America
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On 26/09/2024 2:14 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:02:05 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Am 24.09.24 um 21:21 schrieb john larkin:
>>
>>> The real gulag megadeath and starvation Marxists were Lenin, Stalin,
>>> Mao, and Castro, not the college-campus party tent crowd.
>>
>> No, they were Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists.
> 
> Once the  Marxist Party takes control, you have a selfish and
> eventually murderous elite owning and controlling everything.

That was Karl Marx's political error, which got him thrown out of the 
International Socialist movement. His economic ideas were fine, but 
insisting on the "leading role of the party" in implementing them did 
indeed lead to tyranny, as Bakunin pointed out back in 1871.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in

>> Castro was an island monkey without much influence in comparison.
> 
> He sure damaged Cuba.

He gave the Cubans a much better medical care system than they had had 
before, and poor Cubans now probably get medical care than poor 
Americans. John Larkin thinks like a rich American, and doesn't see that 
advantage.

>> And it's kinda funny how the Left moved Hitler's
>> "National-Socialist Worker's Party" to the right, carefully
>> avoiding the Socialist part by inventing the word "Nazi",
>> which is actually a diminuitiv.
> 
> All government is dynamically unstable. Power enhances power.

And democratic institutions damp that instability. Democratic Socialist 
governments in Europe do a remarkably good job, but right wing American 
politicians and business-men spend a lot of money on lying propaganda 
denying this.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/

John Larkin is a notoriously gullible twit, and has swallowed it all, 
hook, line and sinker.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney