Hello Gerhard!

30 Dec 16 14:32, you wrote to me:


 GS> You've never talked to someone who managed to escape from socialism,
 GS> have you? First of all, in a socialist country, you don't need an
 GS> electric alarm clock, a mechanic one will be good enough for you. It
 GS> will last longer and thus save valuable resources. No electric alarm
 GS> clocks would be manufactured in the state combine of clock and machine
 GS> manufacturing and importing them would nearly be impossible, because
 GS> noone wanted your currency and the treason of using non-socialist
 GS> alarm clocks will be punished. So you forgot to wind up the alarm
 GS>  clock and get up late. Then you don't get in your car, because you
 GS> ordered it about 12 years ago and it still hasn't been build yet.
 GS> Instead you take your bicycle and notice the flat tire because someone
 GS> stole your valve. Then you steal someone else's because there are no
 GS> shops selling spare parts. You get to work late, but your boss doesn't
 GS> care, since they run out of raw materials, anyways. In order to
 GS> achieve the planned production target of x screws set by the
 GS> government, your boss decides to manufacture smaller ones, so the
 GS> material will suffice if it arrives one day. If it doesn't, he will
 GS> just report larger output numbers, since noone will count them
 GS> anyways. Since there's no work for you to do, you walk to the baker's
 GS> shop, but it's closed. They already sold their last bread two days ago
 GS> and ran out of flour. Then you go to the grocery store, walk through
 GS> the empty isles and finally ask the shopkeeper if he has anything for
 GS> sale and he tells you that all he has is a truck full of radiators,
 GS> but he will not trade them in for the screws you stole at work. Then
 GS>  you get back to work and police is already waiting for you, not
 GS> because you've been stealing stuff at work for years, but beacause
 GS> your kid in kindergarten was asked whether the clock on the news had
 GS> dots or lines next to the numbers and gave the wrong answer which
 GS> proved that you watched capitalist news.

 MM>> And then I logged on to the internet,

 GS> In East Germany in 1990 only six percent of all households had
 GS> telephone and owning a copier was subject to government approval. Such
 GS> devices could be used to spread anti-socialist propaganda!



 Sounds like you're confusing communism with socialism. Confusing Communism
with Socialisim would be like confusing Democrats and Republicans.


Mike


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