Edward Campbell wrote:
         I might save your remarks for my history notebook as evidence for why socialism has failed.

My reply,
        I am growing tired of hearing this nonsense.  Socialism NEVER failed.  Let me repeat that in more dramatic terms for those who may be auditorily impaired.  SOCIALISM NEVER FAILED; THE LEADERS FAILED SOCIALISM.  For sociailsm to succeed, grow, and expand under capitalist agents and bourgeois proxies, like Khrushchov and Gorbachov, makes about
as much sense as thinking capitalism could grow in the United States if people such as myself were to assume control of the US government.  Were I to assume leadership I would do to American capitalism what Khrushchov, Gorbachov and their henchmen did to Soviet socialism.  Dismantling would occur with all due dispatch.  After having successfully led Cuba for nearly half a century against a myriad of ruthless bourgeois subversive devices, Fidel Castro and his allies have already proven that socialism can not only prevail but grow given bona fide Marxist-Leninist leadership.  The entire path of the SU under Lenin and Stalin was onward and upward to ever greater heights.  Following Stalin's demise and the takeover by traitors, the path was steadily downward with repeated jettisons of socialist aspects culminating in a counter-revolutionary overthrow in Aug. 1991.  The degenerative quantitative changes ended in a qualitative leap into the cesspool.

for the cause,

Klo