From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 14:28:18 MDT
In a message dated 9/29/2000 3:50:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jr@shasta.com
writes:
<< Okay, so nothing anyone can say will change your mind about free markets
-- you
just don't like them and blame most of the world's problems on capital. Of
course you must know that whatever alternatives to free markets have been
tried
have never ended in sugar coatings. What alternatives to capital have you
tried?
--J. R. >>
No-you have that wrong, intensely wrong. I am a supporter of free enterprise
capitalism. But I am also a pragmatist-within limits. Hypothetically
capitalism shold be adaptable and self correcting. I am concerned that this
might not be true under all circumstances. Secondly, painting Hitler as
merely some kind of socialist, is also incorrect. He and the nazis operated
in a capitalist manner, especially that of earlier centuries. Reminder,
capitalists have engaged in mass murder in the pursuit of low cost labor
(slavery) to plant, and harvest, tobacco and cotton in the Americas.
Capitalists in Europe absorbed Jewish business (to reduce competition) and
thus increase their profits. Similarly, commies have engaged in mass murder
in their pursuit of socialism. I tend to side with the capitalists despite
their history, especially the free-enterprise kind. There are other kinds
such as OPEC cartels, and
corporate monopolies, mafia orgs, etc. The devil is in the details, but so is
the truth.
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