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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (151291)	9/10/2002 7:34:18 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586788

I hope people don't get confused between a communism and a socialism. The former is a dictatorship, while the latter can be (but not necessarily) a highly-regulated free market. "Socialism" is like "liberal" the word is used to describe many different things (although its not quite as bad as liberal which means directly opposing things). In general it can be said that socialism is government control over the economy and capitalism is a system with free enterprise (and also the theory and study of such a system). But in reality no country is 100% free market or 100% government control so the label capitalist or free market gets applied to the relatively free market countries and the label socialist is sometimes applied to countries like Sweden even though the process of wealth creation in Sweden is predominately capitalist. Tim

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (151291)	9/10/2002 10:49:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586788

Tim, <Cotton was grown in areas so unsuitable to it that the needed irrigation caused massive ecological devastation and the resources put in to producing the cotton where less then the value of the cotton even if you ignore the cost of the environmental damage.> I've heard that the yellow dust storms that blow across Korea (and maybe Japan) a few days per year is due to expansion of the Gobi Desert. And that desert has been expanding due to Chinese overcultivation of the land. Your comment above sounds applicable. Ten, what the Chinese have down is stripped the land of trees and vegetation in their logging and farming attempts. As a consequence, the desert is expanding rapidly, and they are now planting groves of trees outside of Peking in an effort to halt the Gobi's expansion into Peking. In addition, they are planning to build a canal from the water rich southern region and bring it to the North. Preliminary plans suggest it will be an environmental disaster worse then the huge dam [the largest in the world] they are currently finishing up construction. China is definitely out of control and needs to be visited by our war on terrorism team. I hope people don't get confused between a communism and a socialism. The former is a dictatorship, while the latter can be (but not necessarily) a highly-regulated free market. Communism isn't likely to be a dictatorship. ted