From: Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 03 1996 - 15:18:31 MDT
On Sep 3, 11:19am, Ira Brodsky wrote:
}
} In any event, it's hard for me to imagine anything more incompatible with
} extropian principles than the Welfare State.
How about outright socialism?
It's often been said that the New Deal saved capitalism from itself.
That is a rather debatable statement. But it is less debatable that the
New Deal may have saved capitalism from what capitalists would consider
to be worse alternatives. For one thing, it seems to have practically
killed off socialism as a movement with any real power in America. No,
random Democrats you don't like don't count.
Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
"Undoutedly there is meanness in all the arts which ladies condescend to
employ for captivation..."
Miss Bingley was not so satisfied with this reply as to continue the
subject.
-- Jane Austen, _Pride and Prejudice_, Mr. Darcy
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