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To: ZenWarrior who wrote (149566)	5/30/2001 2:39:31 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

I think your Progressive Capitalism is Democratic Socialism. Like I said Progressive Capitalism is a redundancy. The progressive part is just government fixing what is not necessarily broken or dictating the natural order of things. Politics govern our economic reality/philosophy. Would you rather I say "Market Socialism"? The only way you can even begin to advance these ideas is if you confuse the politics and economics and which is the driving force. What are your claims on my goods and property (or any other persons) except to fulfil some humanitarian or moral ideal? Maybe there are those who are just alienated and prefer to live as parasitic dropouts. What are they entitled to? my only problem is its weak point: there are losers to this game... people who will not win in the competitive battleground. A humanitarian is always a hypocrite. Helping people is quite another thing. To institutionalize this help in government in the form of entitlements and costly bureaucracy is a detriment to a better society. Welfare bred more welfare. Prohibition and drug wars are further proof. Capitalism doesn't necessarily have weak points, but people do. Individuals make it work not governments, except to the extent they have a laissez faire policy. Sure you're not a Fabian?