Iepilei
9th October 2002, 21:01
When the capital and ruling classes apologize for: Colonialism, the 14-hour day, class privledge, the 7 day work week, children in coal mines, the Opium Wars, the massacre of the Paris commune, Slavery, the Spanish-American war, the Boer war, Starvation, Apartheid, anti-union laws, the First World War, Flanders, trench warfare, mustard gas, aerial bombing, the Soviet Intervention, the Armenian Genocide, chemical weapons, fascism, the Great Depression, Hunger marches, Nazism, the Spanish civil war, militarism, asbestosis, radiation death, the massacre of Nanking, the Second World War, Belsen, Dresden, Hiroshima, Racism, the Mafia, Nuclear weapons, the Korean War, DDT, McCarthyism, Production lines, blacklists, thalidomide, the rape of the third world, poverty, the arms race, plastic surgery, the electric chair, environmental degradation, the Vietnam war, the military suppression of Greece, India, Malaya, Indonesia, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Turkey, the Gulf War, the trade in human body parts, malnutrition, Exxon Valdez, deforestation, Organised Crime, heroine and cocaine trades, tuberculosis, the destruction of the ozone layer, cancer, exploitation of labor and the deaths of 50,000,000 communists and trade unionists in the past century alone, then - and only then - will I consider apologizing for the errors of socialism.