From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 17:21:07 MDT
> (mlorrey@datamann.com <mlorrey@datamann.com>):
>
>> [Socialism] is a long sorry 200 year record of total failure. It
>> has gotten to a point that if you point to an example of a socialist
>> nation that is not a failure then we are justified in replying "wait."
There's at least one exception I can think of--the Oneida community,
originally formed as a collective-marriage commune supporting itself
with collectively-owned farms and by selling crafts. After their
charismatic founder left his incompetent son in charge, they simply
ignored him and many of his father's original teachings and became
Oneida Community, Limited, now Oneida corporation, the largest
manufacturer of stainless steel flatware in the country.
That's certainly one way to make a commune successful--turn it
into a useful enterprize.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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