Re: Fw: New web site on democracy, democide, and war

Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:01:22 +1000
Thomas Griffiths (edtgg@cc.newcastle.edu.au)

Not long ago there was some discussion on the wsn about anti-communist
propaganda. The website on 'democide' is of interest as an extreme example
of this type of propaganda.
'Freedom', it explains, brings economic prosperity, since freedom means
private entrepreneurship without government interference. Democratic
Freedom is of course capitalist liberal democracy, the right to vote every
two years or so...etc. If you have any doubts there are colourful graphs
and statistics empirically proving the superiority of capitalist freedom
over communist demagoguery... Glad I've cleared that up.

Tom Griffiths.

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>This message from my colleague from the University of Hawaii at Manoa might
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>Kind regards
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>Arno Tausch Labor Attache Austrian Embassy

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