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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neeka who wrote (309136)10/16/2002 10:12:37 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
>>We had a very serious discussion <<

>>We had a very serious discussion about democracy. When I asked her which system she would prefer to live under,socialism or democracy, her very disturbing reply was socialism.<<

Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. --Encyc. Brit.

de·moc·ra·cy

Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
A political or social unit that has such a government.
The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
Majority rule.
The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

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