Yes, Cheney is very much a socialist... aka authoritarian. Those who would use government to give advantages to certain businesses, or who would use businesses to further their political goals, are not capitalists by any means.
--- In [email protected], "Anna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You call Cheney a socialist? > Anna > ----- Original Message ----- > From: M.A. Johnson > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:12 AM > Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Re: the truth.... > > > Anna > Reality is that American capitalists have waged a war > in Iraq to protect the trade in petrodollars. Can you > really separate ideology in action from ideology on paper? > If a goal and reality are apart, then obviously something > is wrong with the goal one has. > > MJ > The above, of course, is FANTASY. > In reality, America's variant of socialists have waged war > in Iraq. > > Regard$, > --MJ > > If I had to point out the characteristic trait that > differentiates socialism from [a proper view of the > political economy], I should find it here. Socialism > includes a countless number of sects. Each one has > its own utopia, and we may well say that they are so > far from agreement that they wage bitter war upon one > another. Between M. Blanc's organized social workshops > and M. Proudhon's anarchy, between Fourier's > association and M. Cabet's communism, there is > certainly all the difference between night and day. > What then, is the comon denominator to which all forms > of socialism are reducible, and what is the bond that > unites them against natural society, or society as > planned by Providence? There is none except this: > They do not want natural society. What they want is > an artificial society, which has come forth full-grown > from the brain of its inventor... They quarrel over > who will mould the human clay, but they agree that > there is human clay to mould. Mankind is not in their > eyes a living and harmonious being endowed by God > Himself with the power to progress and to survive, > but an inert mass that has been waiting for them to > give it feeling and life; human nature is not a subject > to be studied, but matter on which to perform experiments. > -- Frédéric Bastiat > > > > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian > > > > SPONSORED LINKS E government Libertarian E government strategy > Libertarian party E government procurement > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > a.. Visit your group "Libertarian" on the web. > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
