[extropy-chat] fun in Russia with the new `capitalists'

[Mike Lorrey]

--- randy <cryofan at mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:43:19 -0600, you wrote
> 
> >http://www.nypress.com/16/45/news&columns/cage.cfm
> >
> >Robert or other informed Russophiles might care to comment on the
> accuracy
> >of this scorching piece.
> 
> And another telling excerpt from that article:
> 
> "Some of us who came home after seeing this began to realize that the
> same process is underway in the United States: the erosion of the tax
> base, the gradual appropriation of the tools of government by
> economic
> interests, a massive, disorganized population useless to everybody
> except as shoppers. That is their revolution: smashing states
> everywhere and creating a scattered global nation of villas and tax
> shelters, as inaccessible as Olympus, forbidding entry even to mighty
> dictators."

What Randy? Do you mean you LIKE dictators? Smashing states everywhere
sounds like a mighty fine strategy. How can I help out?

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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