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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU!LYDICK
  2. From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  4. Subject: Re: Decapitalization?
  5. Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:37:48 GMT
  6. Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1k08ssINNsc9@gap.caltech.edu>
  10. References: <1993Jan18.182606.26418@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,<122420192@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  11. Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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  13.  
  14. In article <122420192@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
  15. >Communist?  Marx was a man who elevated one or two good ideas to
  16. >the level of ideological truth by ignoring a great deal of reality.
  17.  
  18. Actually, Karl Marx paid quite a bit of attention to reality.  Unfortunately,
  19. he lived in a time of transition, and thus his observations were soon out of
  20. date.  He *DID*, however, correctly predict, that both the United States and
  21. England would become communist countries without revolutions.  If you compare
  22. his definition of communism with the way things work in both of these countries
  23. today, you'll have to admit that he was correct.
  24.