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Outrunning China's Web Cops
conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting story on an outfit, DIT, that provides people in China access to censored sites. To do this, 'the company distributes software, called FreeGate, which disguises the sites a person visits. In addition, DIT sends out mass e-mails to Chinese Web surfers for clients such as VOA, which is banned in China. The e-mails include a handful of temporary Web addresses that host off-limits content and springboards to other forbidden sites.'"
Still, the GP has a valid point. There is no inherent tyranny or oppression in the definition of communism. It was the implementations that sucked - sometimes more, sometimes less. The former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (between 1945 and 1990) was not in the least like the countries you cited above. It still sucked, of course, but not much worse than the US in some parts of its' history. Only differently.
Ah, i see: in Communism as it is attempted, you make your own country hell on earth. In Capitalism as it is attempted, the hell is exported to everyone else's. (Not to mention the manufacturing base). Thanks for the clarification! The logically flawed namecalling at the end always *really* seals the deal in proving one's moral and intellectual superiority, too.
That which does not kill us makes us... st
Capitalist Order:
America:Murdered millions of native americans, nearly eradicating their entire race.
Enordsed third reich (see below) until it no longer became fashionable
Capitalist Order:
Britain: Murdered so many people that historians have lost count. The East India company was the most singularly barbaric regime in all of South Asia's history. Until its dissolution in 1858, it was responsible foe more cases of genocide and democide than all of the others before it put together.
Capitalist Order:
The Third Reich: Murdered 6 million Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Handicapped and mentally retarded people, Gypsies etc. The most barbaric of white supremacist regimes was sustained by a military industrial complex that held the entire civilized world hostage.
Capitalist Order:
Imperial Japan: Murdered close to 20 million Chinese and Korean civilians
total of the above: ~ Dozens of millions over ~ 150 years.
Communist Order:
CP(M) govt, West Bengal, India: Murdered 0 people
Kerala, India: Murdered 0 people
Communist Order:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Murdered few million under misguided regime of Stalin.
Communist Order:
Peoples Republic of China: Murdered less than 1 million (except in the minds of rednecks).
Communist(?) Order:
Khmer Rouge: Murdered many millions, but they were communist in name only, (except, again, in the white trash mind) so they don't count.
Total: ~ Few million over ~75 years
Both roughly the same, as you see. The only differences lie in the imaginations of racial defamers like the Nazis, white supremacists and the miscellaneous other anti-semites in the west who defame communism for the sole reason that Karl Marx was of Jewish heritage.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
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Nazi Germany was not by any means capitalist
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Sure they were. They contracted private corporations (like IBM) to work for them. Their military industrial complex was run by wealthy upper class German gentry/nobility specifically those of Nordic descent. The sole reason why the British & Americans supported them was because they were a capitalist regime (despite being called national 'socialists'). The 3rd reich was the ultimate realization of white christian capitalist idealogy, the proliferation of death for profit.
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General Pinochet, but while a free marketeer he did not reign over a free people.[/quote]
So what's your point?
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand