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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (8294)	3/13/2001 3:59:57 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

First, I did not rant on about "socialist ideology". In fact, I just explained that Hitler was not a socialist. Second, I accept that there is a big difference between democratic socialism and Communism. Some of the best anti- Communists were democratic socialists. Third, I was commenting on the excesses of fanatical ideologues, not "socialists". Fourth, I am not talking about "imperfect implementation", I am saying that a state without a free market in labor is not a capitalist state. I deny that the regime in the Congo Free State was a capitalist regime.I deny that the southern states of the Union were even imperfectly capitalist. I deny that the squirearchy of Ireland was capitalist, and even when the Liberal Party was in power in the UK, I think it misapplied capitalist theory to the crisis. Bad policy is culpable, but it is not the same thing as purposely starving people.......