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18559, RE: Socialism
Posted by alek, Wed Feb-14-01 10:47 PM
>Guess what? I dont have
>to. Why? Because
>I've already said them thousands
>of times before.

I'm inclined to agree with standard deviant on this. For two reasons:
1) Unless every opinion you hold about society, economics, and politics has remained perfectly constant since the last time you "shot down socialism" on these boards, you have something new to offer. If you don't want to engage yourself, don't, but it's useless and needlessly combattive to trivialize anyone's argument as just another post to be "shot down."

2) Even assuming that you have nothing new to offer on this, AND assuming that you're not interested in doing us posters the courtesy of repeating (or summarizing, OR referencing on the archives) your opinions, why do you respond at all? I hope you don't include your "digging a hole in the Atlantic" response as a "shooting down of socialism," because that was just empty dismissal.

>You aint the first one to
>argue for big government, and
>you wont be the last.

I think it's pretty funny that you conflate "big government" with socialist theory. Not that they don't share tendencies, or that one doesn't arise in certain cases from the other, but if you're supposed to be a seasoned expert in the art of debunking socialism you ought to bring some real specificity and vocabulary to the table.


> Gimme something original or
>interesting and maybe I'll comment.

Okay. Why don't you clarify the difference between "big government" and "socialism?" And respond to my proposal that our country currently operates under a "big government," but we're nowhere near socialism.

Alek


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