(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 13
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Mon May 18 06:25:01 PDT 2009
David Stockhoff wrote:
> All of which is perfectly correct but has little to do with actual
> socialism and more to do with paranoid Randian fantasies of it. In
> short, a straw man.
I have witnessed more than one self-identified socialist state that
their goal was the transfer of ownership of productive enterprises to
their employees by constitutional amendment. So if it's an effigy, it's
not one I built.
I'll readily admit there are more realistic forms of socialism. One of
particular interest to those here may be the brand espoused by Steve
Brust, author of the Vlad Taltos books. He's blogging a reading of
WEALTH OF NATIONS at
http://dreamcafe.com/words/
and no one's died horribly, yet.
--
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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