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Re: red herrings, pink salmon & rainbow trout



On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Mark Leaman wrote:

> Communism is the most scientific of any form of government. Unfortunately,
> it's never been practiced anywhere in the world. Only corrupt forms that
> call themselves communist...and are actually a form of socialism. But taken
> in it's purest form, it's not at all unlike what Jesus preached.
> The big problem, of course, is greed. As long as there's greed, there will
> never be true communism.

And now for 20 points compare/contrast both Marxism and Lenninism with the 
disillusionment and egalitarian themes in Lifehouse and explain why 
or why not the Universal Chord is a representation of Nietzsche's 
Obermensch as well as explaining if Townshend's message is lessened by 
the overtly capitalist nature of the medium through which it was meant to 
be expressed.


Shane Matheson						MechEng/CompSci UWO

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