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From: Bob Scaife <r.scaife@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: "Anal retentive"
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Richard M. Alderson III wrote:
> And the People's Republic of China is not a republic; the German Democratic
> Republic was neither democratic nor a republic.  The Soviet Socialist republics
> weren't socialist, either.
 
Actually, I believe that the USSR considered socialism a stage in a
process leading to communism.  Thus for the communist party, the work at
hand was socialism, while the objective was communism, and its members
were socialists working toward the achievement of communism.

Regards,
 Bob

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