Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

[Declan McCullagh]

I think communism has too many negative connotations to be used nowadays... 
So communitarian is a new word for the old philosophy. Kinda like 
progressive as a replacement for statist or whatnot.

-Declan

At 12:20 10/10/2000 -0500, Jim Burnes wrote:
>Could someone cogently explain the difference between communitarians
>and communists?
>
>I get the impression that communitarians were sort of a communist/fascist
>hybrid, but I'm sure someone has a more elegant explanation.