well, i have said nothing about the soviets. communist principles can be found all over the globe....even in democracies(sp) such as our own democratic republic.

your post seems to suggest that i may be over the top in my assessment of the communist priciples found in our govt. if that is the case, i'd like to address it.

assuming we agree that communism as practiced by mankind is bad for humanity, we can also agree that even a little communism is also bad in the sense that a little bit of communism (read: socialism) eventually leads to evolution through revolution to full blown communism. this evolution can happen in as little as one generation, albeit the population would have to be fairly ignorant to the dangers of that system.

Mao's communist revolution took less than a full generation. the dissemintation of propaganda was accomplished through the young and emotional at schools etc. they were recruited to tell on thier parents an aquaintences if they believed said parents etc. were anti revolution. need i describe the result of being anti revolution with regard to communism? suffice it to say that mao's revolution led to the murder of millions of people-men, women and children.

do i believe it is likely to happen to the US? no, not unless we expirience an extensive evolution of thought through socialist principles (read: diet communism).

and so i find it analogous to a batch of brownies. brownies are great; with or with out nuts. how many of us would still eat the brownies with same gusto, if we new there were fecal matter in them? how little fecal matter would have to be in it to spoil the batch?

now apply the example to govt./society and communism or even diet communism, and you may see my point.

do we agree that fecal matter, how ever diluted, is a disgusting thing to eat?