Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Enforced socialism?!?!?!? - (nf) Message-ID: <10100029@ea.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 16:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.10100029 Posted: Tue Apr 17 16:11:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 02:25:55 EST References: <519@mprvaxa.UUCP> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:mprvaxa:-51900:ea:10100029:000:1350 Nf-From: ea!mwm Apr 17 15:11:00 1984 #R:mprvaxa:-51900:ea:10100029:000:1350 ea!mwm Apr 17 15:11:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / mprvaxa!tbray / 1:14 pm Apr 8, 1984 */ 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. The problem with capitalism is that it doesn't work. /* ---------- */ Oh goody - AMMO! The unions can't impose socialism? Ok, maybe it isn't socialism - but whatever it is, I don't like it. Consider the local GM plant, where the employees got to vote on which union they wanted to join. What if I don't want to be in a union? To bad - it's against the law. Well, how about if I start a non-union shop and - nope, that's against the law, too. And of course, the MM making various manufacturers stop advertising on "immoral" television programs isn't an imposition of morality, either. As for capitalism not working - it managed to get a net built where you could express your opinions. Socialism hasn't even come close to replacing it, what with England just beginning to recover, and Scandinavia now going broke. If you've got something better than either of those two alternatives, please let us know.