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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Comment by brunix!rb to my article on socialism
Message-ID: <2252@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 10:49:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 10:49:31 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 11:29:06 EDT
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>>>>From ihnp4!brunix!rb Thu Sep 15 00:43:39 1983
>>>>Date:     14 Sep 83 (Wednesday) 23:09 EDT
>>>>From:     Ronen Barzel <rb@brunix.UUCP>
>>>>To:       dave@utcsrgv.UUCP
>>>>Subject:  Re: Socialism has never worked? (utcsrgv.2235)

>>>>I've always felt that socialism is a good idea, but it would only work in
>>>>groups small enough that everyone knows just about everyone else.  Kibbutzim
>>>>are fairly small, so socialism works well.  Israel is a small country, and
>>>>so a vaguely socialist government works well.  In addition, Israelis have
>>>>active nationalistic spirit, which helps keep socialism working.

>>>>I doubt that socialism could work if extended to countries of 10's or 100's of
>>>>millions of people.


>>>> -- Ronen Barzel	   ...!brunix!rb
>>>>    Brown University

>>>>(I would have posted this, but I don't think news makes it out of here.  Feel
>>>> free to post it, if you want.)


Here it posted. I agree with Ronen that the nationalistic spirit has
a lot to do with it. I'm not sure why the size should by itself make that
much difference, though.

Dave Sherman

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