>From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
>I entirely agree, and thank you for pointing that out. In contrast to
>capitalism, one might consider the educational benefits of socialism,
>especially famous socialist teachers such as Stalin, who taught 30,000,000
>people how to die, or National Socialist Adolph Hitler who graduated tens
>of
>millions in his special education classes. Then there was the Maoist brand
>of
>socialist education that taught many more millions of students how to
>starve
>to death..
>
>Responsible and intelligent people should always remember the lessons that
>socialism teaches.
I don't think anyone here is advocating socialism. I certainly am not. But
there are alternatives other than unregulated markets on one hand and
totalitarian socialist regimes on the other. Though die hard libertarians
will disagree, free enterprise mixed with a spoonful of socially responsible
regulation can go a long way.
Unrestrained capitalism (think early industrial US) leads to huge
discrepancies in the distribution of wealth, which leads to social unrest
(think the early labor movement) and even upheaval (think French
Revolution).
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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