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

To: TimF who wrote (8357)	3/13/2001 8:21:12 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Nope, that's just greedy - but non-ideological. Corruption is imperfect and hence obviously non-capitalist (<g>). If you sell cars above cost - if you make a profit from the monopoly, then maybe it counts as impure capitalism. If I invest in your monopoly, and take profits from it without working for it myself, that's pure capitalism. <vbg> It's also less traceable... (I really doubt that most of the profit from the Belgian Congo went to the poor b*ggers that fought and died there...)