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    Default Re: No better than them

    Quote Originally Posted by Jolt View Post
    Communism as an ideal is all nice and fine. The problem is that it is impossible to apply.
    That's why we invented social democracy when we saw that leninism would be doomed.

    And social democracy works.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fenring View Post
    Post-revolutionary France produced a lot of good things, but to use them to glorify a military dictator whose reign happens to coincide with it...
    Hmmmm.... Just how is a "military dictator" any worse than the "royal dictators" he fought...? We usually glorify our Kings, don't we? I can't honestly see what Napoleon did which made him worse. Oh wait, now I remember, he lost in the end, and lost the chance to write the history himself
    Last edited by HoreTore; 11-10-2008 at 09:16.
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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