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Posted By berkeley 3 months ago in News
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Or we could argue that our onetime opposition to communism was noble and all that but that, unburdened by the illusions of the past, American business, backed by the American government, has realized that the problem with communism wasn't that it was undemocratic but that it was anti-capitalist.

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    berkeley3 months ago

    who can remember why? we have very short memories.

    then, as now, we were told different lies each year.

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      Eagle_Eye3 months ago

      "communism wasn't that it was undemocratic but that it was anti-capitalist.",

      that's the truth, people were misled back in the 1960's just like being misled today. That doesn't say a lot about the general populations intelligence level....at least in the 60's there were massive protests, today people are way to complacent.

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