At 10:22 AM 7/19/01, Nick Arnett wrote:
>First, let me make it clear, if I haven't before, that I believe capitalist
>democracy has achieved wonderful things in the world and it is the best
>system humanity has developed in terms of achieving human liberty. I'm
>disturbed by the reaction to my words and others in recent postings, to the
>effect that criticism of capitalism, in particular, equals advocacy of
>socialism. That's as narrow-minded as the opposite assumption, which would
>be that criticism of the excesses of capitalism can only be controlled via a
>return to conservative political values. The socialism of the left and
>conservatism of the right are knowns; I think we're moving into a largely
>unknown system that will be as foreign to us as our system would have been
>to medieval people.
So far, pretty much all socialist utopias have rapidly ended as
totalitarian regimes, and I don't see much chance of that changing until
there is a change in the baser nature of man.
-- Ronn! :)
