//Its title is "Why so many Corpses?" It makes the case that the Manifesto contains a recipe for making corpses.//

And bread queues, David. No recipes for bread, mind you. Just the queues. Not what you'd call a useful cookbook.

Bread was one good thing about the Soviet Union. They had bread stores with possibly 300 different kinds of bread. Possibly that was the best thing they did.

Barry & David,

It takes some us a long time to realise that ALL Utopian scripts are fundamentally fascist - Popper showed this with his analysis of Plato's notion of a Utopian Republic. And, since Popper's "Open Society and Its Enemies", written in the early forties, reality has borne out that analysis - every 'communist' government eventually (sometimes very quickly) goes down the path of repression and totalitarianism, and, if given enough time, to either fascism or that dreary, ghastly Brezhnevism that brought down the Soviet Union.

It's instructive that, although communism ruled in at least one state after 1917, and up to the present, the first leader who had been 'educated' under it to come to power was Gorbachev, born in 1930. Even Cuba was still ruled until recently, after nearly sixty years (sixty years, for god's sake), by people who had gone to elite schools in pre-revolutionary society.

And it took damn near that long for me, a very slow learner, to realise that communism was a stinking crock.

Keep learning, brothers !

Joe