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To: Lane3 who wrote (10496)	2/1/2006 1:29:41 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541515

In that case the government would, indeed, have a monopoly on the production of steel although not necessarily in its distribution. Which is why in the next sentence after the part of the post you quoted I went on to say - " Even if there where a few private American mills the publicly owned ones would themselves be a socialist system". You are working backwards from schools as an example and I think backing into it forces something that doesn't make sense. It make perfect sense if you don't define socialism as requiring the existence of a monopoly. I don't, and I don't think the standard definition does. Tim