From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 16:34:35 MDT
At the beginings of the original thread this spawned I
saw arguments as to the origins of capatalism in
pre-industrial and even pre-hominid times. Then
comments were made on either side as to every society
being capatalist or every society being socialist.
This drifted into really obscure examples, none which
really seem to apply to the current geo-political
atmospheres.
So, my question, is there any consensus on whether any
current successful societies exist with no elements of
socialism? And likewise, were any of these 200 years
worth of failed socialist regimes without elements of
capatalism? I hope the implications of the answers to
these questions are faily clear, although
unfortunately offering no assistance to the original
question of anarchists being socialists or
capitalists.
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/26/2002 12:08:25 PM Central
> Standard Time,
> charlie@antipope.org writes: Saying that "socialism
> is any form of government
> that asserts that the state has control over the
> individual's life" is
> actively damaging to any attempt to discuss
> government -- or liberty --
> effectively, because it so distorts the meaning of
> the term "socialism" as to
> render it meaningless.
>
> Charlie,
> I am not a HS kid standing at a black board
> trying to explain a better
> way to work an Algebra problem. I am a man that has
> seen something of life
> comparing your words with the 200 years history of
> modern day socialism.
> Charlie, many besides you have wrote on the theory
> of socialism and when
> compared to their real world applications they come
> up short every time.
> How do you intend to correct the short
> comings that have caused you to
> fail without exception in the past?
> Ron h.
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