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To: AndyJackson

“Mugabe is not a socialist.”

Puleeeze ... (Eyes roll)

“Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s as the Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). For many years in the 60s and 70s Mugabe was a political prisoner in Rhodesia. His goal was to replace white minority-rule with a one-party Marxist regime.[6] “

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe

Mugabe is no different from other Communist/Socialist dictators.

wrt rudeness and your other personal attacks - you are engaged in projection.


196 posted on 09/21/2008 12:53:58 PM PDT by WOSG (Change America needs: Dump the Pelosi Democrat Congress!!!)
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To: WOSG
You have a real comprehension problem.

Yes Mugabe came to power using Soviet backed Marxism and claimed to be a socialist. But his government is not socialistic. It is a mafioso, a bunch of armed thugs who take from everyone and keep for themselves and their friends.

Genius, socialism is what happens in Northern Europe,. You know, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the UK. The problem with socialism is not that folks are crooks, but that it stifles individual initiative and innovation and sacrifices the power of the individual to the dictates of central planning. All of that is bad enough.

You see you are too dumb to see past the labels. Mugabe may call himself a marxist or a socialist, and you might call him that. But what you call him is different than what he is. The only planning in Zim is how the few can loot even more from the populace to enrich themselves.

The usual term for this is not socialists but rather common ordinary crooks.

Of course you have not been there to see it in action.

And the problem with getting the label wrong and calling crony capitalists socialists is that you let them off the hook with the excuse that they are doing it for socialist reasons - for the good of the people.

And unless you are a complete idiot, scoundrel or fool, you know that neither Mugabe, nor these crooks on wall street are doing it for the people. They are doing it for themselves.

So take your idiotic socialist label and shove it.

197 posted on 09/21/2008 1:10:21 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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