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<div class="quote-block"><i>Originally posted by Martin</i><br><br><b>Well... No system we have seen... A socialist transitional system.<br><br>
I'm a communist and I think I.V. Stalin was a great socialist leader. Many things were not so good, but lies abound.<br><br><br><br>
Although I support green policies, I do see the necessity in his mass-industrialization, for any goal, to be able to stand up to the might of the western imperialists. A-bombs are not fought with sticks and stones. There needs to be a socialist alternative to US imperialism. There are none.<br><br>
China is an authoritarian, state-capitalist nation.<br><br>
Ditto with Cuba and Vietnam.<br><br>
North Korea is a fascist state, based on the ultra-nationalist Juche theory of Kim Il-Sung.<br><br><br><br>
BTW... Why are you going to hate yourself for this? <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/smiley.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="

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So...are you against democracy? Or are you just in favor of socialism? They are not mutually exclusive.<br><br>
So...Stalin was a great leader? Purges, mass starvations, and all?<br><br><br><br>
I'll let my part in this conversation drop at this point, as I am hopeful that your kind will be relegated to the dustbin of history in another decade or so.