22-02-2011, 06:13 PM
Quote:David Sellers:
Couldn't he simply be speaking about the Communist systems in Russia and China (and elsewhere)?
As we've been discussing in this thread, it is a matter of interpretation. I don't interpret it that way, myself. However, it is difficult, if not impossible, for us to determine at this time exactly how far reaching his understanding of these things was at that time.
There are elements in the speech that appear, in my opinion, to indicate references to "power" that exists independently of the political/idealogical factors that you mention, namely, our relationship to (not with) the Soviet and Red Chinese communists' and their systems of government and conduction of the Cold War, respectively. However, that isn't to say I believe he was referring to his own murderers, either.
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"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)