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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Socialism - (nf)
Message-ID: <2833@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 22:35:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 22:35:17 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Sep 15 17:10:00 1983

   Your view of socialism is extremely distorted. You seem to only see the
Soviet bloc countries and what they call socialism.
   Of course, it's possible to mung up anything. People have a knack for
screwing things up. However, my encounters with non-soviet socialism have
not been terrible. My grandmother lives in denmark and lives in subsidised
housing, has her medical bills payed by the state, etc etc.
   Her situation seems to work. She likes it, and the rest of the people
I talkd to there didn't seem to mind the degree of government control that
was present. Now, the government didn't control the occupations of the people,
or exert any very direct control over them, but I don't think that a well
thouth out socialist state would have to.

					dirk grunwald
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