Jerry Friedman writes: >--- Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> wrote: >> Jerry Friedman writes: >> >> The only way to really bring about the future Kelly desires >> >> is to destroy the Great Cycle. >> No. >> Note, to support my point, that the Orca are, basically, the merchant >> middle class...the obvious predicessor to a Teckla communist >> revolution. >I hadn't considered that, and I think it support my suggestion >that Kelly's movement could succeed as the Cycle turns from the >Orca to the Teckla, at the expense of my other suggestions. Happy to support that, since it was what I figured that Verra meant. >I don't think it's settled, though. Nah. It ain't settled until the bodies are buried. >> When did Verra indicate that a communist revolution would last >> indefinately? >She indicated (thanks to lazarus for the quotation) that there was >a lot of truth in what Kelly was reading. Sure. I assumed that this was the "way current society works" and that "a lot of truth" meant it wasn't -all- true, but others may differ. >I would *guess* that a Hungarian-American >Trotskyite sympathizer would say that the USSR and its satellites >weren't really Communist any time after 1927, I might even agree with this, true. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^-- "Get your mind right and you can make a stick /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ your wand and the sky your hat and a puddle |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\ your magic..." -- Granny Weatherwax '---''(_/--' (_/-'