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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.093516.3484@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:35:16 GMT
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- S o c i a l i s m a n d D e m o c r a c y
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- "Socialism means democracy. And that means elections, free speech and
- press, free political parties and labor unions -- things the Soviet
- people don't have.
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- "In the Soviet Union, power has been centralized in the hands of a
- bureaucratic elite. Not only doesn't the Soviet Union deliver
- democracy to the Soviet people, but a highly centralized
- bureaucratic economy cannot meet even many of their basic economic
- needs. Just because the Soviet elites call their system
- "socialist" doesn't make it so. After all, they call it
- "democratic" too. [E.g. East Gernamy's former name, GDR, German
- Democratic Republic --HB].
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- From a copy of the DSA's [Democratic Socialists of America]
- pamphlet, _12 Myths About Democratic Socialism_, use the GET command
- with the file name 12-MYTHS SOCIALSM]
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