Texts & Emails, Mon 9th November 2009

Topic: Why did Communism fail?
Panel: Constantin Gurdgiev (TCD), Kieran Allen (UCD) and John O'Brennan (NUIM). Niamh Lyons (Daily Mail) and Barry Whelan (NUIM).

why ar dweling in d past when der are so many serious issues to b discusd at present. Francis mollaghan, commerce student at ucd.

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Record unemployment, a banking system on the verge of collapse, growing public unrest, an escalation in armed crime, C.Diff , swine flu . The country is lurching from one crisis to another. Nowadays a good news story is rarer than a meeting of the Jobs Task Force. Joe . Belmullet.

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Communist austerity or capitalist austerity for the common man.!? Jw d14

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i'm on dole my wife works part time public service our total is 450 per wk this budget will hit us both we have mortgage live rural need car feel helpless where is the old fianoa fail social justice by the way where are the jobs from lisbon lies the threat of the imf coming in is a breach of our sovrienty and an affront to democrarsy martin mayo

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Daily meal?, are you suggesting his motivation for writing for the dm is purely monetary? reasons.

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.too.many.foreigners.here.too.much.pressure.on.all .services

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We never had Communism, merely state despotism. Like Christianity, Communism and/or Socialism seem they could be good ideas. They should be tried sometime. Maurice Curtin

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The west simply outspent the east fiat currency won out tony yates boyle

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Control of communism & catholic church r directly comparable & blameworthy. Gareth

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soviet union would not have broken up had oil price not collapsed.

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Dr. Allens' beloved Trotsky employed similar tactics in the Russian Civil War that Stalin would later use. The SWP's Trotskyism is the same as Stalin

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all dogma has causd wars, rape, torture,all these catholic,communist,etc etc all useless manmade madness,designd 2 control the masses.

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i am from east germany, i was 13 when the wall came down. I know one thing that 80% of my mothers generation would wish the wall back up. Yvonne hanke

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when are we going 2 get rid of the last dictator in .Europe alive and well in .Belarus

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All Government Building's Should have a Berlin Wall around them.to cool off. It up to the people off Ireland to have their say. It been since 1923 . They been at it. There should been a wall built since then. Martin from Cabra.

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A. Merkel is for getting where she came from that is the general feeling of the public in east germany.

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, is the world realy a safer and better place since the removal of the berlin wall, think not. Connie foley macroom.

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what we need in this country is a revalutation, our leaders are not in touch with reality. Mike galway.

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I saw Bertie Aherne being driven in his state car from the League final in Parnell Park last March, it was really infuriating. Tks Mary

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Think bout this..26 counties.6 of them bog.4 of them rock nd forest. How can we pay the huge nama let alone anything else. V. Tullamore

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These homeowners will have to live somewhere & pay rent so why not let the owners rent the houses fron the banks 'till they get on their feet.

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we need to get ben dunne , dermot desmond, and david mc williams to come in and take over the running of this country before its to late mike galway