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At the risk of repeating what the guy already said, there has never been an existing socialist state... Leninism, Maoism, Stalinism, Pol Pot,,, none of this has any relevance to a discussion about socialism. No one has starved death under a socialist system of government, no one has ever been murdered by a socialist government... there are only so many times these truism's can be repeated, before we have to believe that people just do not WANT to understand.
When we talk about socialism, we are not talking about Russia, we are not talking about Cambodia... if you want to talk about the inefficiency of Bresnev's (sic) Russia, or the corruption and mass murder of Stalin's Russia, I will happily agree with you, but these where not socialist states, and neither of them even thought of themselves as Marxists.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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