[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Wed May 6 13:17:10 CDT 2009
Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I'm not sure at any time they were communist either.
>
> Communism in Russia existed before the revolution in the villages, where
> it mostly worked, and afterward what they had was not the same, no
> matter what governments and historians call it.
>
> Maybe you could call it what happens when communism tries to go big, but
> I have never thought of them as communist.
>
> It seemed to be a socialist system run by an elite and violent aristocracy.
>
> Whatever you call it, it was a monumental failure that makes a lot of
> other crappy governments look good by comparison.
I don't even think it was particularly socialist. I see it as monarchy
being replaced by oligarchy. The tsar was replaced by the apparatchiks.
Peace... Sridhar
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