Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Sorry; i didn't carry that out far enough; many f the Communist
>> regimes uder discussion came to power by overthrowing established
>> governments in countries without that sort of mechanism for peaceful
>> change.
>
>> The fact that it takes violent revlution to bring them to power
>> means that they will tend to be led/ruled by people who think in
>> "barrel of a gun" terms.
>
> All governments are led/ruled by such people.  That's what makes
> governments governments, as contrasted with consensual organizations
> such as corporations, clubs, and religious groups.
>
> There have been plenty of non-Communist violent revolutions, such as
> those in the US and France, and several non-revolutionary Communist
> leaders, such as Stalin.  Deaths by the millions correlate with
> Communism, not with revolution.

How many million has the US government killed since the revolution?

Karl Johanson