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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (61813)	6/10/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: 16yearcycle	Respond to of 164684

"Oh comon. Communism looks great on paper" ????????

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (61813)	6/10/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 164684

Oh comon. Communism looks great on paper, but it has so many real word fatal flaws that it's dead in the water. You will never find an argument from me on that... (except that I do not even see the "great on paper" part). Mainly, people are greedy bastards at heart, and there's nothing you can change about that. Capitalism plays to that human trait, and thus succeeds. Partially correct.... the human nature part, I agree 100% Except that... and a very important "that". To really succeed, you can not view it from the "screwing" point of view, which it is the reason of my reply. The key is to understand that.... "America's founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more and nothing less. The rest --everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything "noble" and "just", and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-- was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e. an individual's freedom from physical compulsion, coercion, or interference by the government. The next was the implementation of political freedom: The system of Capitalism." ~ Ayn Rand. And... "If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose...the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money'. No other language or nation had ever used these words before...Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. " ~ Francisco D'Anconia You see, the reason I made the reference to "Uncle Fidel" is that the Collectivists use the flawed theory that capitalist "take advantage of people", hence my objection to your comment that Capitalism is related to "screwing". Collectivist continuously run propaganda campaigns, playing on the human emotion of envy, that Capitalist go around "screwing people all over the world". Capitalism is based on the concept of freedom to exchange value for value. That is the reason there is no: * Moscow Mercantile Exchange. * Peking Duck Exchange. * Havana Cigar Exchange. __________________ Capitalist Pig Moi ? OINK !