>In practice, many aspects of the socialist worldview and socialist policy >have been integrated with capitalism in many European countries and in >other parts of the world to form mixed economies.
I would personally add the US to this list, as social security, medicare, and medicaid are very socialistic institutions. However, the point in European Pseudo-Socialism isnt that the working class has achieved great bounds and the average living person has a house, food, and medical care. Paraphrasing Marx, the worker will always be given just enough of the capitalists riches to keep him from revolting. Because European citizens are more active in their politics and have a much better chance of revolting than lets say the average Japanese or American citizen means that their capitalists will give them a little bit more, and a little bit more until the citizens have everything they need and possibly a little bit of what they want. On the flipside, they'll still be slaving away putting euros into the pockets of the capital owners. Either way, European Union, NAFTA, or Japanese the capitalists have what they want and the workers are exploited. ===== Love in Jesus Christ, John Alfred Nathanael Chee http://www.xprt.net/~chitaree -- Homepage http://www.wwjd.com -- Christian Teen Interest http://www.gospelcom.net/bible -- The Holy Bible, Good News, Book Of Love http://www.debian.org -- There's another way! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
