Bare Cupboards - Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - Part 3

Conversations with Trentino ^ | September 12, 2002 | Trentino

[Davis]

Although the Left regarded socialism as the answer to the cries of the prisoners of starvation, Lefties were aware that there was something wrong with socialist productivity. Goods were scarce, sacrifices had to be made to assure a better, more abundant future. That, anyway, was how it was explained.

But facts are stubborn things, as you know, and they kept seeping out. They had started seeping out soon after Lenin took charge...more

[Maelstrom]

bump...and please bump me the first two?

[Davis]

Thanks for the bump The first two can be found at the website on the same page as this one...

[WaterDragon]

Good article. I read Pipes' book on socialism. He said it's dead now, a goner. But David Horowitz says it's the most dynamic ideology in America, determined to pull down our government from within since their plans for a bloody revolution in the '60s never came off.