Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Case] > Platt, I would not have offers such a refresher if you had not demonstrated > such a crying need for it. You almost always use the terms redistribution of > wealth in the sense that this is done involuntarily. It most certainly is > not. Without a method of redistributing wealth there would be no economics > at all. Capitalism is a system for redistributing wealth just as communism > is a system for producing wealth. Both systems employ the coercive power of > government to enforce their policies.
Seems to me that with your superior knowledge that you could tell the difference between distribution and redistribution. Most sixth graders can. As for government being defined as the legal use of coercive power, I've been saying that for years. Taxes, for example, are hijacked from citizens at the point of a gun. > It is the application of force that is the problem not the specifics of the > system. Pirsig claims communism is a higher moral code than capitalism. What > he sees as the failure of socialist systems to allow for the action of DQ is > really a matter of trying to exercise too much force and control in the > economy. No kidding. Communism has slaughtered untold millions of its own subjects. > Capitalism is nothing more that abstract Darwinism. Bringing you and me untold riches -- the free market a fertile ground for DQ. > But you can see the effects of trying to force even so noble an ideal as > Liberty upon people at gun point. The more force you apply the more > resistance results. Resistance produces the need for more force. The net > result is the spiral of violence and the shrill cry that we are turning the > corner, there is light at the end of the tunnel. And always the body count > rises higher and higher. I guess your superior knowledge has ignored the rise of modern German and Japan after WW II. Oh, well . . . ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
