[EM] RE: Election-methods Digest, Vol 10, Issue 34

[Russ Paielli]

Simmons, Forest simmonfo-at-up.edu |EMlist| wrote:
> Well said, Mike.
>  
> Every time I hear that the program I was listening to on Public Radio was supported by a generaous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation I think of the workers and their families who were shot by private security forces (Brinks) and national guardsmen for striking or being with the strikers.
>  
> The invisible hand of the market was covered with bright red visible blood on that day.

Gosh, I'm moved by your sympathy for those victims. However, I can't 
help but wonder how sympathetic you are -- or even how aware you are -- 
of the 100,000,000 victims who were killed by their own communist 
government in the past century. No invisible hand there, eh.

While we're on the topic of murderous governments, I'd like to try a fun 
little quiz for anyone who cares to give it a try. The following 
paragraph expresses views remarkably similar to Mike's. Can you guess 
who wrote it and who he worked for? (I have cut a few giveaway words to 
make the game a bit more challenging.)

--Russ

"We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of 
necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, 
not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has 
a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We 
have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the 
state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole 
nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter 
of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive 
citizen. Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor 
able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a 
fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at 
the bourgeois parties and [cut] at the same time, because both are sworn 
enemies of the coming workers' state. It is directed abroad at all 
powers that threaten our [cut] existence and thereby the possibility of 
the coming socialist [cut] state."