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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:08 PM
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Poll question: Was Stalin a socialist?
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:09 PM
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1. Sorry - Quibble Over Semantics day was *yesterday*.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:10 PM
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2. According the Noah Goldberg, Stalin is a modern American Democrat.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:12 PM
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3. No
he was a top of the money pile capitalist
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:15 PM
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4. Tyrant
But some people would like to believe he was a socialist. Certain people love to point out Hitler was a socialist.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:23 PM
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5. Sure he was. Socialism is an economic system, not a road to sainthood.
And, just like capitalism, (though, generally less so), it's bosses are not immune to Lord Acton's axiom about power.

We can quibble about "real" socialists or "real" capitalists or "real Christians" or "real" liberals, etc, etc. But, all are human and whenever they achieve power, or need to retain power, are seldom reluctant to throw whoever they deem necessary under the bus.

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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-23-08 12:29 PM
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6. Megalomaniac,
paranoid, mass murderer. His notions of political economy hardly matter.
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