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. If 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. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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