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Posted by: Stuart Gort ( USA ) on June 25, 1999 at 23:36:28:
In Reply to: Let's try to do better posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on June 25, 1999 at 10:15:06:
:: SDF: Interestingly enough. I've already disqualified Gideon Hallett's argument here against Stuart Gort. Pointing fingers at the other guy is no excuse for mass murder. The question we should be asking is whether the choice between state-capitalist imperialism (Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko) and corporate-capitalist imperialism (Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton) is the only choice we have. But my point is always missed in these discussions. I'm not trying to set up a pro-capitalist - anti-commusist argument. That is just the luck of the draw on this topic. I want that you don't think me to be a glad to kill commies, rabid pro-capistalist, BD freak. I want that you don't characterize every U.S. military effort in reaction to Soviet imperialism as a capitalistic knee-jerk. I truly respect a man or woman who puts life at risk for my sake. These were real live atrocities being committed by soulless men who had to be stopped. I wish to hear you one day acknowledge that it had to be done. I fear that you can't do this because if there is any justification at all for the U.S. to exist, in your mind the ideology you admire begins to crumble. As long as the U.S. is evil, it becomes irrelevent how well capitalism serves the general citizen. I believe it is demonstrably better than communism by comparison, of course, but that doesn't translate to be rabid support or unquestioning trust of men to rule other men. I know there is nothing perfect about either ideology. I want to but still do not understand what motivates you to so adamantly support an ideology that comes from a man. Marx, who was certainly a genius, had flaws as we all do. Even if he was perfect, his ideology must be administered by men - who have always failed to administer anything perfectly. Stuart Gort
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