From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2004 - 20:35:07 BST
Dear Wim,
> Sure. The Soviet 'empire' (Soviet Union plus supported communist regimes
> elsewhere) was a less moral society than its capitalist competitor. Iraq
> under Saddam, Iran and North-Korea are far less moral parts of the present
> world society than the alternatives we would like to see there. They
> made/make excessive use of policemen, soldiers and guns to repress (what
> they perceive as) lower quality parts of their society (and what are in
> part attempts to reform their societies in a more moral direction) compared
> to more moral competitors/alternatives.
I'm glad we agree that we can make moral distinctions between nations,
i.e., that some are better than others and that some, especially those
which are totalitarian, are evil.
>The defining 'instrument of
> conversation between society and biology' in capitalist society is economic
> dependence.
If you would please expand on how economic dependence is an instrument of
conversation between society and biology.
>Our
> disagreement starts when I want to distinguish between the relative
> morality of communist society (on the social level) and the relative
> morality communist ideology (on the intellectual level) and when we are
> going to discuss how to change less moral societies to the better.
I take it you believe that communist ideology as espoused in the Communist
Manifesto has merit. If so, please explain.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Platt
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