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From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Newsflash! [Subsidized Education]
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 18:43:47 EDT
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In article <1766@psuvax1.UUCP> berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) writes:
>> [quoting me]
>> I repeat:  The western democracies, American and European, represent
>> ideological arenas where the actual policies are an amalgam of free-
>> market and socialist ideals.  Socialists may not legitimately claim
>> any credit for the ameliorative effect of the resistance to their
>> programs.  The Eastern European countries are valid demonstrations
>> of where those programs would lead without such resistance.
>> --JoSH

>  What is the resistance JoSH is talking about?  Who was against mixed
>economy in Western Europe?  ...
>Piotr Berman

Ah, come on!  You have got to be stupid as well as malicious to 
misinterpret something that badly.  The mixed economy is the RESULT
of the conflict of free market and command economy ideologies.

--JoSH