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From: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik@ex2642)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"?
Message-ID: <449@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 02:50:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 02:50:50 1985
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>                                                      ...  Lacking a
> big wad of bucks or demand credits in a bank, I'd have more "freedom" to
> determine our technology or our mode of production in (almost)ANY socialist
> economy than in this one.  I have NO freedom to determine or to meaningfully
> participate in these big kinds of decisions under US-style capitalism.

> Do I want that kind of freedom?  Sure.                [TONY WUERSCH]

Let me see if I got this right. Tony's chain of thought runs as follows:

1. I am an intellectual.
2. Intellectuals have more power under socialism. (As opposed to capitalism
   where a competing elite - businessmen - hold the power.)
3. Therefore, socialism is preferable to capitalism.

Did anything get lost in the the translation? In any case, Tony should be
commended for putting his cards on the table.

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Gabor Fencsik         {dual,nsc,hplabs,intelca,}!qantel!gabor