Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:52:59 -0700 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> To: <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <paul@freebsd-services.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010927185300.AAA1280@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> In-Reply-To: <20010927204008.A69066@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:40:09 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >I believe most people regard the authoritative work -- as far as= the basic >philosophy and ideas are concerned -- to be "The Communist= Manifesto" by >Marx and Engels. Beyond that (and perhaps including that), it's= a matter of >dispute whether communism states it or not. >If Stalin stated it that doesn't mean all communists must agree= with him. =09If it's a logical conclusion to draw from what Stalin stated,= then Stalin gets (some of) the blame for it whether he said it or believed it= (though it may be erroneous to describe it as 'Stalin's belief'). Similarly,= if it's an illogical conclusion to draw from what Stalin said, he's free= from blame even if many people draw that conclusion from his works. =09DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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