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  • From: Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>
  • To: mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] from the desk of Arianna Huffington
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:55:16 -0400

Communism in the USSR was *based* on Socialism, but thats where any
similarities end.

Marx was rolling in his grave when he saw his principles adulterated
in that way.

~ian

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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:55:52 -0400, Phillip Rhodes
<mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
> Alan MacHett wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I'm dumbfounded. Until reading your emails, I would NEVER
> > have associated 'Republican' or 'Free Market' with management having lower
> > salaries than employees or with redistributing profit back to the
> > community. Well, I STILL don't associate those things; I think you've
> > mislabeled yourself.
>
> Why not? Capitalism and Free Market aren't about individuals not giving
> back to the community, etc. "Socialism" (at least as it's commonly
> understood) is about government based charity. One of the reasons that
> Libertarians maintain that government charity is not needed, is the
> belief that in the absence of it, private charity would take it's place.
>
> The relative greed and self-centeredness of individuals is really
> a completely separate issue from whether you live in a socialist
> or capitalistic society. In Soviet Russia during the height of
> Communism (the ultimate form of Socialism?) where there not individuals
> who managed to accumulate great wealth while others went hungry?
>
> Capitalism and "Free Market" economics do not *necessarily* equal a
> selfish, "me first" attitude on the part of everyone involved. Those
> attitudes transcend political and economic affiliations, IMHO.
>
> TTYL,
>
> Phil
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