Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:55:47 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010927185300.AAA1280@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>; from davids@webmaster.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:52:59AM -0700 References: <20010927204008.A69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927185300.AAA1280@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
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David Schwartz said on Sep 27, 2001 at 11:52:59: > > >I believe most people regard the authoritative work -- as far as the basic > >philosophy and ideas are concerned -- to be "The Communist Manifesto" by > >Marx and Engels. Beyond that (and perhaps including that), it's a matter of > >dispute whether communism states it or not. > >If Stalin stated it that doesn't mean all communists must agree with him. > > If it's a logical conclusion to draw from what Stalin stated, then Stalin > gets (some of) the blame for it whether he said it or believed it (though it > may be erroneous to describe it as 'Stalin's belief'). Similarly, if it's an > illogical conclusion to draw from what Stalin said, he's free from blame even > if many people draw that conclusion from his works. Sorry, I don't follow what you're saying at all. My point is, it's meaningless to say "communism says this". You could say "some communists say this", or "this book by a communist leader says this", but there is no Bible for communism -- unless it's the Communist Manifesto, as I said. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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