--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > Jerry Friedman writes: > > > > >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 think you want "communist". Having decided against that once already, now I think you may be right. > And was there actually a communist state > before 1927? My sense was that communism has never been implemented for > any duration on a scale larger than a small Shaker village. I know very little about the early USSR. I would guess again that a Trotskyite sympathizer would think at least some things were at least going in the right communist direction while Trotsky had influence. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail