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From: radar@avsdT.BERKNET (Linda Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"?
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 18:54:56 EDT
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> In article <286@spar.UUCP> baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) writes:
> >> How can a relatively small number of people (i.e., the gov't.) know
> >> what's best for millions?  Moreover, how can anyone know what's best
> >> for anyone else?
> >>						Mike Sykora
> >
> >By the same logic, how can everyone know what's best for *themselves*?
> >
> >						Baba
> 
> All other things being equal, every knows what's best for themselves,
> better than someone else does.  This does not mean that anyone either
> (a) understands his own needs perfectly, or (b) understands how to 
> meet them perfectly.  But most people understand their own needs
> and their own abilities better than anyone else does.
> 
> --JoSH

There is a Womens Action in San Francisco at the CIA office
between 11am and 1PM- a legal protest and civil disobedience
protesting the trade embargo in Nicaragua.