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To: nathanbedford
Very good post. Thank you.

I think, though, that the description of the Soviet State ideology needs some additions. It wasn't just intended to immobilize the victim/individual. That is shown by the night-long argument the Bolsheviks' Politburo had on the eve of storming the Winter Palace, over what to call the government ministries after they'd been taken over.

Point: The Bolsheviks (whose very name was a lie) did not, as the Frankfurt School teaches, insist as all good Communists should on the complete destruction of the corrupt antecedent society, as a basis for discussion of what a just society should look like. They just took it over -- not very ideologically pure in the clinches, and probative of cynicism and manipulation, and dishonesty in argument from day one.

34 posted on 02/16/2010 4:34:13 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Social Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal


39 posted on 02/16/2010 4:53:58 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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