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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Hunger and the Free Market: re to Cramer
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 15:34:28 EDT
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Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall)
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>> >>If you're interested in a study of the phenomenon on a 
>> >>global scale, try "A Pattern for Failure" by Sven Rydenfelt.  It is
>> >>somewhat depressing...

>Do you seriously think we're going to believe the answers are in your book
>any more than we believe the answers are in the Bible?  Yes we can read
>the book: but you have already.  Do us the courtesy of summarizing the
>book's rebuttal to Taylor's argument, rather than insulting us.
>Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh

There are many issues which cannot be fully understood on the basis
of flip repartee on netnews, and this is one of them.  One can 
point to this social mechanism, that economic tendency; but to understand
what actually happens when actual Communists take over an actual
country one must consult sources more informed than net.politics.

I'm not writing for those who, like you and Tim Sevener, have an open
mouth instead of an open mind;  I'm writing primarily for my conscience
to speak out against the collectivism and love of coercion that is the
dogma of the current intellectual elite.  If there are people reading who
are interested in understanding why people starve in the real world,
rather than making rhetorical points on the net, do some reading--
but look for facts and do your own interpretation.  Rydenfelt is not
a bad place to start; this book is a set of case histories, not an
"argument".  

--JoSH