Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Frank Reid
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 11:04 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: The Lizard Master to Frank Reid on Mon Oct 10 2005 10:04:00

 > You said there were no more bastions of communist influence in the world tod
 > thanks to the US.  I pointed out that your statement was wrong, and then you
 > made a narrow definition of what you defined as communist.  And your point
 > wasn't about soviet communism.

We were discussing the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union which, as I'm
sure you know, was a struggle between democracy/capitalism endorsed by the U.S.
and communism endorsed by the U.S.S.R.  Although China's version of communism
had its roots in the same Marx, Lenin (and Zedong) principles, most would argue
that they diverged shortly after inception (if not entirely when Den Xiaoping 
took over in the 70s).  This was probably mostly the differences in geography
and society, where China didn't have the dense urban areas the U.S.S.R. had. 
Today, with China a "most-favored" trading partner of the U.S., and with a huge
amount of their economy vested in the private business sector, along with their
equally huge investments in foreign interests, I think it would be very hard to
qualify their government as communist as originally envisioned.

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