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From: billp@azure.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: Enforced socialism?!?!?!?
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 04:11:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 04:11:04 1984
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>	Unions are organizations constituted of participants in
>	the free labour market acting in their own enlightened self-interest
>	to increase their value in that market.  Now some unionists may
>	be politically committed to socialism (damn few in the US).  But
>	they are part of the free market and can no more impose socialism
>	than the "Moral Majority" can impose morality.

If the unions were truly part of the free market, they couldn't do the damage
they do now, I doubt if they could survive.  Just look at the plethora of laws
completely supporting their side of this "free" market.  How long do you think
unions could survive, if the state did not provide the muscle behind their
demands?

>	The problem with capitalism is that it doesn't work.

Give it a chance, and it will, but don't call every state-sponsored interference
with the free market "capitalism".

	Bill Pfeifer
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