Sean Andrews wrote: > A topic of conversation was how Milton > Friedman was still too Socialist
I've never told anyone, but Friedman was part of the socialist organization that I once belonged to (a group called "Revolutionary Power," which later became part of the highly influential International League for Rebuilding the Fifth International-Mandelite). He was a socialist because he knew that both Marx and Engels believed in the absolute necessity of grasping state power in order to impose a steady growth of the money supply and how it would serve the international proletariat attain its goals. > and, as I mentioned last summer when > Michael came to speak, Adam Smith is sacrosanct. strange. Smith was much more of a statist than they. > I would say it > speaks to their openness that Michael Perelman was invited at all, but > he didn't really give the paper he wrote because people in the > audience were hounding him with interruptions, Wealth of Nations in > hand, in an attempt to refute every paragraph he uttered, and they're rude! -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
