From: Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 12:57:34 MST
From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
To: extropians@maxwell.kumo.com
Date sent: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:21:33 -0700
Subject: Re: The Education Function
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> "Joe E. Dees" <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> does it again:
> Subject:
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> >The Soviets are a prime example of MY thesis; they behaved like
> >one big corporation,
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> Ludicrous. Corporations don't force you to pay for and accept their goods
> at the point of a gun. Where do you get this stuff?
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> Dick
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If Wal-mart or Microsoft truly owned all infrastructure and employed
everyone, how long do you think it would take them to start? There
have been basically four types of power structure dominant in the
past century; governments, churches, corporations and labor
unions. Communism claimed to be a labor union which overthrew a
government, but ended up being a corporation (run by commisars
and apparatchiks - read corporate executives) which turned their
corporate ideology into a religious dogma and oppressed their
proletariat (the workers). When the Solidarity labor union was
formed in Poland, it destroyed the myth that the corporate
governance was the same as the labor; from that point on, things
crumbled quickly. Joe
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