Re: Ideological Diversity

----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Weick <eweick@istar.ca>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Rev Int Movement (fwd)


> Have you read nothing about what the Communist party did in Russia in
> the1920s and 1930s  -- the show trials, the gulags, the knocks at 
>midnight?

Perhaps you should tell us what you think happened so we can debate your
(mis)conceptions,
instead of assuming that western propaganda about the "purges" etc is
axiomatically true;
this is a scientific list, not a religious one.

> Given any strongly held ideology, it is easy to point at nonbelievers, pin
> labels on them, and use violence against them.

Well, right. But you need to begin with the mote in your own eye instead of
jamming the Spector in ours.
>
> And by the way, have the "oppressed" asked you to use violence on their
> behalf?  Might it not be better to go out, like Ghandi

Ghandi??? Who he?

Mark Jones