Marcel Popescu writes:
> Tom Vogt writes:
>> you must have a pretty... "unusual" ... definition of "socialist". care
>> to share it with me? at the moment you sound like a frightened child
>> that claims "the whole world is evil".
> Socialism: the (advocacy of) intervention of the state in voluntary
> transactions. In extenso, whenever there is a state, or advocacy of a state,
> there is socialism, for the state cannot exist without interfering with
> voluntary transactions (otherwise, it would only be a company).
> The world per se cannot be evil; evil only has meaning wrt persons. Yes, all
> people are evil.
Well, Tom is right. You are using a completely different definition
of the word than the rest of the Enlish-speaking world uses.
In the real world, socialism is defined a little more tightly than
that.
Of course, there is no question that socialist governments interfere
in voluntary transactions. However, the converse is not true
(governments that interfere in voluntary transactions are not
necessarily socialist)..
Of course, by your definition, every government is socialist
> Both those on the left and on the right advocate state intervention
> in human affairs.
This does not make them the same.
--
Colin
