That was hilarious how the People's W.W. kid put the scare quotes around "bloody" "repressive" and "Stalinist".

Larry Kudlow is a dink and that Rotstein rotter should be packaged up and sent ASAP to Pyongyang.

That is all...

Scare quotes around repression are about as abhorrent as the repression itself. Those commies are straight-up idiots.

Yeah, I thought that would be funny.

Just to be clear: I didn't put those quotes there because I think that Stalin was a great dude, or because I think that everything that happened back in the USSR was wonderful. Clearly there were many problems and terrible crimes were committed.

But the corporate media always goes on about "stalinists." The truth is that, while stalin was terrible, the Soviet union helped its citizens in many ways that supposedly "humane" capitalist simply will not.

I have been to Cuba, and seen socialism in action. They have a much better healthcare system, and that has a lot to with why they have such a low HIV infection rate. Their system is even far more effective than the Canadian one that liberals like to go on about - in Cuba they don't wait for people to get sick. They're proactive. They fight illness... and they often win!

Anyway, cool website.

Now I have to go prey to comrade stalin, so that he doesn't eat my third-born child.

Peace,
Shane

PS- Use Firefox. Internet Explorer sucks! - www.firefox.com

Shane, let me get this clear. Despite the lines for all manner of basic goods, the hundreds of thousands of people tortured, the millions of people outright murdered, the tens of millions of people jailed for decades, the vast majority of the population in poverty, and the entire nation living in fear of their neighbor lest they report them to the secret police for not acting just the right way about some political topic...somehow since health care was "free" and everyone worked gloriously for the State and the Revolution, the USSR really just suffered from "many problems"? Have you ever heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? How can you even begin to excuse the leaders of the Soviet Union for what they did?

Let me explain what I think about a government (ANY government) "helping its citizens in many ways that a capitalist will not." Where does the ability of that government to help come from? Does the government produce wealth that it owns and distributes among the needy? Does it arrive on the planet in a *WHOOSH*, armed with billions of dollars in funds to disburse to the destitute?

No, it doesn't. The only way a government can operate successfully is through threatening the lives and liberty of the individuals living within it's borders to cough up some portion of the wealth THEY create. From your website's link to "The Party":

"Massive public works programs with affirmative action can be established to create jobs, revive basic industry, rebuild our cities and crumbling infrastructure and clean up the environment. Quality, integrated public education can become available to everyone from nursery school to graduate school. National health care, social security, housing and necessary utilities can be guaranteed as basic human rights.

The wealth and resources for these and other programs are abundantly available in our country but are monopolized in the hands of a tiny group of billionaires whose sole, overriding aim is to maximize private profits."

The section then has the eye-widening audacity to then say: " The struggle for the rights of the people takes place in many different arenas - economic, intellectual, cultural and political."

You give a damn about rights? How about starting with the basics: You own your body and I own mine. You, your movement, and the government have absolutely no right to enslave me through the law to accomplish your ends. I am not a tool in someone's garage to be picked up and used at their whim. Furthermore, neither are the things I earn and own.

That wealth your comrades so eagerly want to sink their fingers into IS NOT THEIRS TO HAVE. You have no right to it. Since Lenin knew the wealthier classes in society wouldn't just give up what they had, he took the next logical step for all tyrants, dictators, communists, socialists, Democrats, Republicans, and statists: he stole it from them either through the threat of violence or by actual violence. The negation of freedom.

What you advocate in reality is systematic, entrenched, and nationwide aggression against all. In other words, the complete abolition of human rights.

Thanks for the compliments on my website. I'm using Firefox right now. I gave up on IE a while back and switched to Opera only to have that browser behave towards my system memory like a third-term farm state Senator behaves towards an agricultural budget. Mozilla has been mo-betta so far.