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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (568586)	5/28/2010 12:00:30 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578479

"Socialism is based on the people voting away their rights to property. It's about as "democratic" as two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch." LOL...well said. But, don't expect koan to understand.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (568586)	5/28/2010 7:17:01 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578479

Socialism is an economic system. It has nothing to do with a political system. Libertarianism is fine as long as it is contained in a democratic system. I could call myself a libertarian. I trst as a left wing libertarian along with nelson Mandela and the Dali Lama. The problem with Rands ideas of unregulated capitalism is that in the extreme it UNDERMINES democracy. We just saw that with Bush's uregulated Wall street debacle and the present unregulated oil spill debacle. In both instances the corporations were undermining democratic rule. When capitalism undermines democracy we call it fascism