From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 15:44:54 MST
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 18:10, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/5/2002 7:34:39 PM Central Standard Time,
> charleshixsn@earthlink.net writes: But you definitely haven't pointed at
> all examples of socialism, and the ones' that you claim as pre-eminent
> examples, seem to me to be more clearly examples of something else
>
> Charles,
> The problem is that English is a complex language constantly
> mutating and spoken inexactly with great difficulty by all of us -- but
> just the same it is usually considered dirty pool to attempt to use unique
> and personal definitions that are contrary to the definitions used by the
> majority. Ron h.
>
> If you wish to reinvent your own personal brand of socialism I
> suggest you look at past failures and formulate a system of socialism that
> will prevent those failures from recurring.
> As alternative methods of improving the world in major way I suggest
> you examine Freemasonry and the Sufi Way.
I'm not a socialist. It would take too much work. I'm not interested in
inventing a new meaning. I merely want to get a good grasp of what the word
means in a way that will allow me to recognize it when I bump into it.
Yes, words tend to have multiple meanings. That's why after coming to one
reasonable definition that covers a part of what seems to be meant when
people talk of socialism, I didn't stop immediately. There are clearly
meanings that this doesn't include, but I still don't know what they are in
any even approximately useful sense.
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