I wasn't saying "Commie = bad, capitalist = good;" I was repeating what Miro Vejkovic (probably spelled wrong) told me, which was that "even though they might not get to America or ever have that freedom in Yugoslavia, it was a comfort to know that somewhere in the world people were free of secret police, of having neighbors who were informers, of being imprisoned without charges -- all those things tyrannical governments are so fond of."

That's more like Autocracy=bad, Democracy=good. Miro was pretty cranky about being pushed around by capitalists too, or by academic bureaucrats -- we were both working for Washington State University -- and he didn't much like the people who had replaced the Communists in Yugoslavia.

clint