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From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: part of what's wrong with socialism
Message-ID: <693@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 15:31:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 15:31:12 1983
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>>> >> >...  However, capitalism tends to fail insofar as distribution is 
>>> >> >concerned....
>>> >> 
>>> >> ...  Capitalism "tends" to
>>> >> distribute goods and services to those who produce goods and services.
>>> >> 				Neal Weidenhofer
>>>
>>>...  I think that Marx would have said that capitalism tends to
>>>distribute goods and services to those who collect dividend checks.
>>>----Prentiss Riddle

Marx might well have said that, and he would have been no more correct than
he ever was.  If I may quote from a note on my wall, copied from a netnews
article posted by Prentiss Riddle:  "A page of history is worth a volume of 
logic."  The volumes of logic produced by Marx--and the other socialists--
are nothing compared to the pages of history.  Those pages show beyond any
rational doubt that there is really only one thing wrong with socialism:

                       It doesn't work.

-- 
--Bill Price    uucp:   {decvax!ucbvax  philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice
                arpa:?  sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc