Actually, equating Socialism with dictatorship is faulty reasoning. There
are plenty of countries that have socialist and capitalist programs that
coexist.
It is time that we recognize the warts on the capitalist system. It can be
and often is very damaging. Equating a "free market" with democracy is a
fallacy. They are not coequal. There are methods of coercion and influence
that the so-called "free" economies use to get unequal access to markets, to
labor and so on. Why do we allow multinational corporations to use what is
essentially slave labor in thirdworld countries? Because that is the way
that they can make the cheapest goods to sell in the "free market" in
firstworld nations like the United States. What is the price of our so
called "free market"? Economic and political tyranny in small, undeveloped
nations. But since it is not in our backyard, we don't have to look at it,
so it doesn't bother us, right?
Perhaps a "pure" socialist system is not a system I would want to live in.
But I have serious moral questions about the "free market" too. Coercion
and diplomacy of the gun are an integral part of the "free market" system,
and to ignore that is either idiotic or morally bankrupt.
Peter Horton
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----- Original Message -----
From: Darryl Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:56 AM
Subject: Greens, was Winner Take All
> Just to chime in. I understood what John was saying when he said
> "Green Party" vs. greens, although he could have been a touch more
> clear. Ralph Nader actually isn't a member of the Green Party, he's
> just endorsed by them. He has stated publicly that he doesn't
> necessarily agree with anthing in their platform.
>
> Which is good, because the party platform of the Green Party is a bunch
> of nonsense. For instance, they propose a maximum wage...anything you
> make that is ten times more than the minumum wage is subject to 100%
> taxation.
>
> The Green Party is really just another one of those socialist parties
> with an environmentalist wrapper.
>
> I could never support a movement that proposes to solve environmental
> problems by dismantling capitalism, just like I would not support a
> movement to solve environmental problems by repealing the Bill of
> Rights. Capitalism is one of the cornerstones of our freedom. We
> can't give up our freedom to solve environmental problems, it won't
> work. Dictatorship won't work because there is no way to hold the
> dictators accountable for their actions. Even if the dictators start
> out pro-environment, inevitably their only agenda is pro-dictator.
>
> Michael, this is the real reason that so many right-wing people seem so
> anti-environment to you. If the major plank of the Green Party is
> thinly disguised socialism of course they are going to oppose it. But
> they are not anti-environment, merely pro-capitalism.
>
> =====
>
>
>
> Darryl
>
> Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
>
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