To: Daniel Liberty who wrote (2431 ) 7/12/1998 12:11:00 AM From: ahhaha Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Free markets always work. They work in spite of all the efforts of individuals, governments, corporations, and university economic philosophies, to make them work properly. When these forces interfere with the market, the only consequence is an impulse to disequilibrium, which takes time to wash out. People through governments can outlaw free markets, but they still operate. The Soviet Union outlawed all markets. The majority of intellectuals world wide quietly applauded the Soviet Union's action because they knew it would bring a utopia of fairness with no corporations. The theory didn't work, but during the interim of seventy years, two generations of Russian's lives were wasted. The result was the quiet dismemberment of the anti-market state. What year did the Soviet Union disappear? No one knows. '89? '90? '91? No one in any circle is saying a word about this absurd attempt to rewrite the nature of existence. The Russians either could have gone on with institutionalized depression to serve experiments by university professors or they could quietly sweep their great revolution under the rug. Free market capitalism was busting loose any way. There's a limit to how long you can keep it down. When it busts loose, it steam rolls everyone the authorities were trying to protect. So they could either choose to die as a nation or let the poor starving and oppressed be smashed. Another testament to the glories of socialism and the attempts to do good through the institutionalization of fairness.
