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Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de Al Klein 05/29/2006 04:57
On 28 May 2006 15:40:50 -0700, "Brian (Groups)"
<usspskghws@mailinator.com> wrote:
>Eugene Esterly III wrote:
>> I hate to tell you but we out gov't is becoming communist. They try to
>> make laws banning music, movies, video games, et al. For example, the
>> gov't tries to ban violent video games because they say that it causes
>> kids to kill.
>> The gov't just wants to control us just like what happens in a
>> Communist country.
>I hate to tell you but I think you're confusing communism with
>authoritarianism.
>Communism - A theoretical economic system characterized by the
>collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for
>the common advantage of all members.
>Authoritarianism - Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to
>authority, as against individual freedom: an authoritarian regime.
Most people make that mistake, since "Communist" USSR and China were
dictatorships but only paid lip service to the Communist economic
system, even while claiming to be Communistic.