. . Subject: Re: real economics (no university teaches it, too afraid of the truth?) . . . . . . > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... > ... I'd have to agree, and Mao's line. Even so, was Mao, Lenin, Pol pot, where they worse then the feudal Tirants they replaced ? At worst, weren't they more of the same ? How much suffering have the feudal lords caused in the world ? What where they to do, lie on their belly and receive another millenia of abuse ? How many tirants have you overthrown lately, Rod Speed ? We have to judge what is being done relative to what it replaces, and sometimes it may be necessary to launch bloody civil wars to destroy a parasitic class of people for revenge and to allow a chance for the future. To disrupt the stranglehold some class may have over a nation. You call the CP of China autocratic and bad ? Maybe so, but does that mean you'd prefer to go back to the rule of the Emperors ? No ? Thought so. Now what ? -- http://www.socialism.nl