In a message dated 1/10/03 1:53:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << when you go on about "statists" you do sound a little like Marxists when they go on about "captialists". :)
-jsh >> I used "statist-liberal" and "statist media" to distinguish the adherents of big government from classical liberals. While Marxists may go on about capitalists, Marx actually thought that capitalists were a progressive force, having brought about an unprecedented abundance of material goods (he may have been the first economist or at least among the first economists to notice not merely that some European countries were wealthier than the rest of the world but that they had achieved something fundamentally new, the miracle of modern economic growth) and key to bringing on the inevitable communist revolution and the resulting anarchist socialist utopia. Maybe Marxists should study their own history. Marx, on the other hand, studied history, and he barely got anything right, so perhaps studying history doesn't guarantee good economics. :) David Levenstam
