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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Here Are The Undeniable Truths of Life
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- References: <grendel.722041805@camelot> <1992Nov18.020350.12683@netcom.com> <grendel.722136033@camelot> <1992Nov22.170236.27026@nmsu.edu>
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:51:11 GMT
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- In <1992Nov22.170236.27026@nmsu.edu> dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg) writes:
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- >In article <grendel.722136033@camelot> grendel@camelot.bradley.edu
- >(Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
- >>In <1992Nov18.020350.12683@netcom.com> kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <grendel.722041805@camelot> grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
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- >>>>>27. Soviet leaders are actually left wing dictators.
- >>>>
- >>>>Believe it or not, not all Soviet leaders are any one thing.
- >>
- >>>But most of them preached facist left-winged ideas.
- >>
- >>HELLO! Remember the coup? Remember Gorbachev getting kidnapped? Remember
- >>the breakup of the Soviet Union? It happened because a RIGHT-wing faction
- >>of the government, that is, the old guard of Brezhnev/Lenin ideology,
- >>opposed Gorbachev's progressivism and willingness to allow state's rights.
- >>Calling Soviet government fascist left-wingers is way too convenient.
-
- >Actually, as I recall, they weren't exactly thrilled about Gorby's
- >free market experiments. So are you saying that a conservative is
- >someone who disliked the free market. What an odd and convenient
- >definition; e.g. right wing= bad guys.
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- Conservative = dedicated to preserving the status quo. In Soviet government,
- the free market experiments were a liberal and progressive idea. The coup
- was staged by officials who wanted things to go back to "the good old days",
- i.e., conservatives. Besides, I don't think Gorby's free market experiments
- were the only reason for the coup.
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