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• • 10 Nov 08
  • 6:50 pm

  Mr Ayers You state that this "was a long strange trip". It still is and has just begun. You profess to celebrate democracy, egalitarianism (whatever that means), human rights and your opposition to so called "illegal wars". Then how does that reconcile with your past as a terrorist with a group which wanted to submit the USA to Communist rule and one which choose violent means to achieving this aim. How does that match with human rights and democracy? How democratic is to support communism which is an antithesis of democracy. People do evolve and as such the label "terrorist" may …

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• • 11 Nov 08
  • 3:19 pm

  jaybee the reason communist societies failed is because they denied human nature. They cannot exist in democracy because as soon as one among the collective dis-believes in communism, the concept of egalitarianism falls. So to maintaining that egalitarianism dictatorship is required. Only one country/place ever voted for communists to power, San Marino, tiny land inside Italy, smaller than Rhode Island. They were governed as a social democracy. Communism is just another form of fascism disguised in the people power directive.

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• • 11 Nov 08
  • 5:24 pm

  Jaybe Tribal societies are not egalitarian and certainly not multi cultural or multi faceted. Fascism is not always racist or nationalistic. It is collectivism thrust upon the population by the state. Mussolini was a socialist btw as was Hitler. Communism is universal and in that differs from fascism. However their methods are the same. Cohersion, dictatorship and suppression of liberty. How can you impose tribalism on large societies anyway. Tribes are the most dictatorial structures.

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