From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 23:32:21 MDT
>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
> > Zero writes
> >
> > > Unrestrained capitalism (think early industrial US) leads to huge
> > > discrepancies in the distribution of wealth, which leads to social
> > > unrest (think the early labor movement) and even upheaval (think
> > > French Revolution).
>
>Uh, the French Revolution was a revolution against the ruling
>class, against aristocracy and subjection by force and the lack
>of freedom to one's own life and to rise. It was in no way a
>revolution against capitalism, unrestrained or otherwise.
Of course, but it *was* a revolution against the "huge discrepancies in the
distribution of wealth." Which was my point.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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