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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
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Subject: Re:Re:Part of what's wrong with socialism.
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 22:51:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 22:51:35 1983
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Both sides, of course, are right.  That's why there is no pure
socialist or pure capitalist economies.

I think the capitalist vs socialist argument is not meaningful unless you
discuss SPECIFIC areas of their application; ie, should utilities be socialized
or controlled by public agencies?  And just what do you mean by socialism?

Why don't we just forget these ambiguous words altogether and talk in specific
terms like `public ownership' (as in stocks or government corporations), instead
of making it seem like a contest between Us and Them.