Letters to the Editor
Democracy is the freedom to criticize
This letter is in response to Gavin Murphy's, "A 'backwards view' of U.S. history" and is also a few ruminations of my own. I would first like to address the issue of communism. Currently in the United States, there is a gross misunderstanding of what communism truly means. A distinction must be made between the original writings of communist theory and what has actually been put into practice in China, the former Soviet Union, Cuba and elsewhere. I am not proposing that these examples are without fault, but there is a difference between the theory and the practice of communism in these instances.
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