From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 08:35:24 MDT
In a message dated 10/23/2002 3:04:44 AM Central Standard Time,
samantha@objectent.com quotes: There is no problem with levels of abstraction
if the levels are reasonable well-defined and grounded. Perfect definition
and grounding is not practical in many cases though and over-insistence on
such leaves too many important areas undiscussable. There is a balance.
Samantha,
Did you originally write that -- in any case I agree. However, the
various socialists have been allowed too often to take the discussion to too
high a level of discussion IMHO. The problem with the highly abstract and
the concrete in the case of socialism is that when socialism gets to the
concrete it has a two hundred year history of total failure and worse of
human tragedy & repression. Taken to the concrete it has a long history of
not even being a respectable approach to government. We cannot not pay lip
service to respecting a way of governing that has repeatedly murdered tens of
millions of its own citizenry.
Ron h.
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