Aucbvax.1509 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!mhtsa!ucbvax!POURNE@MIT-MC Wed Jun 3 02:36:34 1981 Alternative to arms race. Liberation movements must be carefully thought out. Although some academic departments teach Marxism and Communism as if they were some kind of intellectually sound philosophical movements, on the evidence they are a kind of intellectual con game whose objective effect is to keep a bunch of geriatric cases, most of whome are homicidal maniacs, in power. Geriatric homicidal maniacs don't give up easily. "Germans, rejoice; the Fuhrer has arranged to slam the door of history so hard that the destruction will be permanent." Goebbles, in the last days... One can of course hope that the officer corps will not begin global warfare without enormous provocation; but watching the self-Balkanization of Mother Russia, and the destruction of the pan-slavic dream, might be a bit much even for non-ideologized officers... So; while we may hope for the "liberation" of the Soviets (and certainly the non-Great Russian populations generally feel that liberation is in order) we should also be wary lest we trigger some aged maniac into making a name for himself. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.