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former9thward

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16. They were a communist movement.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #15)

Thu Aug 7, 2014, 03:30 PM

Aug 2014

A communist revolution. I know communists always say there has never been "true communism" anywhere because all those countries have been failures. Socialists say the same thing. I say this as a democratic capitalist so that is my bias. I believe those countries have been failures due to inherent contradictions in socialism and communism.

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