Donald wrote in #6
 &nb sp;    ; Minus: I hate to tell you this, but you are actually a Marxist without even realizing it. Regarding your statement that it is best to have no ideology, this resonates with Marxist historical materialism which holds that it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. Economic relations of production between humans are the foundation on what the super-structure of the rest of society is built upon. Stock traders actually aren`t capitalists at all. They are simply adopting a survival strategy within capitalist society, much as various animals adopt and develop survival strategies according to their surroundi ng environment within the framework of Darwinist natural selection. Also , Thomas Paine, the great revolutionary thinker; a Marxist before his time who promoted enlightened human freedom from organized religious dogma and, even before Marx did the same, theorized how private land ownership led to alienation. The corrupt legal system that you mention (I actually agree with you that this is what it has become) is actually an adaptation of capitalism essentially to prevent and reverse such alienation among certain groups to coerce them into participation in this system and forestall any potential natural revolutionary impulse. -------- -------------------- -----------------Act ually, I'd much prefer it if you called me a fascist, instead of a marxist?But, I believe in neither of those, I just love $money$.
So, whether that makes me a capitalist or not,all I want is $$$Money   $$$Money   $$$Moneyand then I will be very happy.

I want to see the USSR come back again just so I can laugh at it. I mean, the propaganda RT news station already exists, all we need is for Putin to officially accounce it lol.

Kihnu, I'm afraid I haven't heard of Heino Seinis.

And yes, there were pre-Soviet Estonian settlements in Siberia and elsewhere in the Tsaris empire. From time to time during Tsarist times, persection and economic hardship in Estonia grew quite severe, and there were those who felt that, since they couldn't easily travel out of the Russian empire, the best chance for them and their families for a more normal life was in more-or-less virgin and remote areas of the Empire where they could live without attracting the abusive attention of the authorities.

Over generations, some such people became completely russified, lost their language and every aspect of their Estonianness apart from their names. Some of these people, who could speak no Estonian and had no real or emotional connection with the country any more were brought back by Stalin and his successors to create the fascade of Soviet Estonia being run by Estonians. You probably knew this already, but I'm sure there are readers who do not understand Russia's history with Estonia.

And I'm sure your family were unique, Kihnu. All families -- and all individuals -- are. Which is why the Marxist/Leninist term, "the masses", rankles so much, subsuming as it does the right of people to be themselves under turgid, de-humanising Communist class dogma.