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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
Message-ID: <748@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:09:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:09:46 1985
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References: <3615@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
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In article <3615@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes:
> In article <1209@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
> >For the 987234567981616th time, or thereabouts, you [Josh] pretend (or maybe
> >believe, but even you can't be that stupid) that the only alternative
> >to Libertaria is Stalinism, which he calls socialism.  
> 
> For the 987234567981617th time, socialists can not claim credit for
> the ameliorating influences to their wretched blueprints for society,
> which exist in the Western democracies you extol.  If Huybenz and his 
> ilk had their way, they would be enjoying the power and perquisites
> of the political elite while the rest of us would be slaving for them
> in subsistence conditions.

What kind of a twit are you to think you know what "way" I want, when you
can't even spell my name correctly?

Believe it or not, many people are classified as socialists because they
are to the left of their accusers, not because they want to go whole hog.
My vision is pragmatic, not idiological.  I want to see some motion along
socialist directions, and perhaps some along libertarian directions.
Each has something to offer, and both have pitfalls and excesses to avoid.
When you endorse libertarianism to what I consider excess, I criticize.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh