From: EvMick@aol.com Date sent: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:44:24 EST To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: FW: Property [was Re: The Education Function] Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> In a message dated 12/18/98 1:28:17 PM Central Standard Time,
> jdees0@students.uwf.edu writes:
>
> > necessity of running the military in a nondemocratic
> > manner, I was (and remain) too much of an individualist to tolerate it
> > personally.
>
>
> Funny...you could have fooled me. From your rants I get the impression that
> you are a fascist.
>
> Of course, I guess it depends on the definition of fascism. The definition
> I'm using is the one mentioned by Harry Brownseveral years ago in one of his
> books. (perhaps "how to live free in an unfree world"?) I beleive it goes
> something (loosely speaking) to the order of "Private ownership of <economic>
> production.... but under ......Government control..".
>
>
> Isn't that what you're advocating? Or are you advocating pure socialism. <
> The Government ownership AND control of production.....>
>
> (of course...as DerSchlickMiester has so artfully demonstrated....definitions
> can be twisted...so your milage may vary)
>
> Either way it hardly qualifies as individualism...
>
> EvMick...
> SanAntonio Tx.
>
Fascism, anarchism, communism; our only choices seem to be,
according to you, the extremes. I guess that makes you an
extremist Joe