From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 09:02:53 MST
In a message dated 11/15/2002 5:04:32 PM Central Standard Time,
alexandersheppard@hotmail.com writes: (Reply) Well, I'm really not sure what
you mean by "socialist" here, as the word has many possible meanings,
Alexander,
Actually it doesn't. Sometimes we capitalists forget that socialism
is not analogous to a lake but to a river.
It begins with some guy advocating socialism in a seemingly kind and
abstract way and proceeds along a well traveled pathway to serfdom and
finally total collapse. That is why von Hayek called his book The Road to
Serfdom -- it is a road, a river, or a process. Each little step leading
inevitably to the next step and finally to serfdom.
We have a two hundred year history of watching this process called
socialism.
It is in the end deadly and destructive of human liberty.
So, in one sense you are right. There are many steps in the process,
the river is or can be fairly long but always it gets to the same spot -- it
causes great human misery and collapses.
Ron h.
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