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To: TimF who wrote (10472)	2/1/2006 11:15:24 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541477

I'm not sure how it could be one and not the other. Socialism is an economic system. It's about government ownership of the production and distribution of stuff. Like shoe factories or dairies. I have an appreciation of your lust to privatize everything. I'm not sure, though, that everything not privatized could be called socialist. There are, indeed, legitimate government functions. People may have differences of opinions on which they are. And the people who think that most things are governmental in nature are what we call socialists. But the continuum is long and it seems to me that setting the boundary between socialism and capitalism at the point where anything that could theoretically be privatized must be privatized to avoid the socialist label is a bit much and not very useful. "Socialism" only has meaning when contrasted with communism on one side and capitalism on the other. You are leaving faint space on the continuum for capitalism. It seems to me that a better place to draw the line is where material goods or transfer payments come into play, not before. A school is not a shoe factory.

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