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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
Message-ID: <3764@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Apr 89 14:11:56 GMT
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In article <582@whizz.uucp>, bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
> True. "Communism" was the ultimate condition to be achieved when the
> State had withered away (by magic, evidently, since I am not aware that Marx
> ever did really explain this one).

He's not the only one with this blind spot. I recently read a book by Murray
Rothbard in which he described how the Libertarian millenium was to come
about. He'd built up to a pre-libertarian ideal in which libertaria was
protected from authoritarians by a feudal cabal of insurance companies. Then
he made the wholly remarkable observation that after the fall of authoritaria
the cabal would, "now that their purpose was served, disband".

No explanation of why they would give up their power or anything. Just a flat
statement. Rather ruined the rest of the plan for me, it did.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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