On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Burnes wrote:
Jim Choate wrote:
A century ago? You dipshit the Ottoman Empire fell apart in the late
1800's while the first Communist theories formed in the late 1800's and
the first communist state formed in 1917.
Actually the first formal Communist
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Sunder wrote:
Erm, it is the same thing if you happen to be the worker/serf. You are
owned and anything you have in your possession isn't yours. It doesn't
matter much whether it's the Lord or the Party that owns it. What does
matter is that you don't. :)
The flip
Jim Choate wrote:
A century ago? You dipshit the Ottoman Empire fell apart in the late
1800's while the first Communist theories formed in the late 1800's and
the first communist state formed in 1917.
Actually the first formal Communist theories were formed in the late
1700's (about 1792 if
Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Er... what part of "feudalism is a form of socialism" you don't understand?
None of it since they're not the same thing at all
Socialism is the ownership and management of all property by the state
with the elimination
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Yeah, thriving economies that only a handful of elite got to benefit from
while the rest of the population were pretty much on bread and water. You
really should study the fall of the Ottoman Empire a tad more closely (or
at least quit
At 4:15 PM -0800 3/1/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
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This is a common misconception, even in my country (Romania, Eastern
Europe). I argued with someone claiming that "$1,000 in Romania is
equivalent to $4,000 in the US". I told him that it's the other way around:
you need at least $4,000 (and I
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I'm using other definitions.
What a fucking putz. Invent your own language and you expect others to go
along with it? Fat chance.
EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does
not "define" words, it just
At 12:33 AM 3/4/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Economics - the study of how people choose among alternative uses of their
(usualy scarce) resources.
But using your definition then micro-economics is the same as
micro-capitalism? Macro-economics is macro-capitalism?
ROTFL
The other
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote:
EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does
not "define" words, it just indicates the most common ones.
No, normaly people use words within a reasonable range of commen
expectations. It's one of the reasons people
At 2:15 AM -0500 on 3/3/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Well, it seems that we're arguing about word definitions, which is a most
stupid thing to do.
Sorry if you feel that way. I was just going for a laugh, and not really
arguing with you at all...
Cheers,
RAH
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Robert Hettinga wrote:
Well, it seems that we're arguing about word definitions, which is a most
stupid thing to do.
Sorry if you feel that way. I was just going for a laugh, and not really
arguing with you at all...
Charlie Trie said the same in Congress a few days ago, when explaining
how
At 8:03 AM -0500 on 3/3/00, John Young wrote:
interesting things about Charlie Trei
Oops, nevermind, this thread is about bread. Ha! Hiccup.
You're excused?
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
Who *still* thinks about the same of the word "capitalism" that, say, the
Lakota may think about the word "Souix".
At 02:15 AM 3/3/00 -0500, Marcel Popescu wrote:
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Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a
transaction by those not involved).
Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning
"economics".
Well, it seems that
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote:
I'm using other definitions.
What a fucking putz. Invent your own language and you expect others to go
along with it? Fat chance.
Ever hear of Esperanto?
The
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 2:44 PM -0500 on 3/2/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a
transaction by those not involved).
Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning "economics".
Economics - the study of how
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Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a
transaction by those not involved).
Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning
"economics".
Well, it seems that we're arguing about word definitions, which is a
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Socialism is the ownership and management of all property by the state
with the elimination of private property.
Feudalism is the situation where within a geographic area EVERYTHING is
property and owned by a single INDIVIDUAL.
Why
At 2:44 PM -0500 on 3/2/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a
transaction by those not involved).
Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning "economics".
;-).
Cheers,
RAH
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