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There has never been an existing socialist or communist state. If people will not understand that, or just chose, like Humpty Dumpty, to say "the word means what I want it to", then there really is no possibility to have a rational debate. Modern America is certainly not comparable to Hitlerist Germany or Franco's Spain or Pinnochet's Chile, or any of the other brutal regimes mentioned (its funny how people only mention the mass graves in those countries where it fits their theories)... America is not free, is not a democracy, the American people - as all other people in this world currently are - are enslaved by a contradictory, exploitative, and damaging mode of production and system of society. Capitalism will not last... if history can teach nothing, it must teach that no empire and no system of government is immortal... the revolution will happen, withing the next 100 years certainly - and those who hate communism now may be fortunate to know that what they hated - Pol Pot, Stalinism, Mao - is not the same as a collective and co-operative form of society, based on the common good rather than competing private interest (regulated more or less by the state)
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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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