Mat, not locked for defending socialism - for the concise and well argued case against it.
For months now I've seen long threads bashing America, bashing Bush - most of them passed upon fallacies of Chomskyian magnitude - and they are tolerated. But when China was brought in as an example of the horrors of socialism (and I didn't even get to the forced late term abortions performed by injecting poison into the womb) - presto we were locked out. Now there is a lot of good things going on in China as it seeks to modernize without collapsing into chaos - but the results of creating a 'workers paradise' are pretty clear - and it has only been the introduction of market influences that have started to make things significantly better.
It just seemed funny to me, seeing as we are all CMA nuts. Are we selling our souls to a government that refers to the U.S. in internal documents as 'enemy number one'?
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