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To: American Spirit who wrote (65717)	5/15/2006 8:57:21 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Socialism is Statism. It is a dirty word and a filthy concept. Its basis is "From each according to their ability; to each according to their need." It is against human nature as it sets up a system designed to coercively punish success and reward failure. Ayn Rand was not a right-winger. Is that the only concept you have of politics and philosophy? Right or left wings that don't even exist? They are cardboard constructs in your virtual mind. (I say "virtual mind" because I don't believe your mind really exists. It's just an echo chamber endlessly rehashing old, worn-out, fallacious ideas. That Europe is socialist doesn't make it right. Nor that the PRC is communist makes it right. Nor that Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway and Argentina were fascist make it right. Your ideal workers' paradise assumes that the most competent, most productive, most successful will all willingly line up to accept the yokes of social slavery and have their life blood sucked out of them in the name of need by those who are lesser than them.