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Old 02-19-2008, 12:10 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Agamemnon View Post
Fair enough, lets get away from semantics. I maintain it's innaccurate to state that 'Socialists have no regard for human life'. You can dress it up and down as you like, but I find that statement without qualification to be misleading, at the very least.
Hmm...
Okay, I'll shift gears a little bit. As a socialist, even a democratic one, you embrace radicalism and rapid progressive change in order to realize your final society.

I think this has been moderated by the conservative/liberal elements of our Western democracies. As I said before, it's why Western socialists decided to allow the ballot box to make the final decision. But, this goal of a progress towards a final society is something which is implicitly extreme in the notion of socialism.
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