From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 27 11:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [216.152.64.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E066637B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whenever ([206.171.168.130]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:53:00 -0700 From: David Schwartz To: Cc: , FreeBSD Chat X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.51 (988) - Registered Version Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:52:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20010927204008.A69066@lpt.ens.fr> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <20010927185300.AAA1280@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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