Re: another millenium argument

["S. Glitsos" <glit0001@tc.umn.edu>]

Keeping in mind that Ayn Rand's ideas regarding capitalism wouldn't work 
for
the same reason that socialism wouldn't -- HUMANS.

stavros

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Duke <jmar@bellsouth.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: another millenium argument


>after you have read those read *Atlas Shrugged*  by Ayn Rand.
>
>jd
>
>"Javier Miranda V." wrote:
>
>>         For a very authoritative opinion of the failure of the 
>capitalist
system,
>> you would like to check these books out:
>> *When Corporations Rule the World* by David C. Korten
>> *The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism* by David C. Korten
>> *Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power (Open Media
>> Pamphlet Series, 4)* by David C. Korten
>>         You might also like to check this out:
>> *Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet
Series)*
>> by Robert W. McChesney
>>         You can pick them up at Amazon or BuyBooks.com.
>>         Bottom line:  You are a better idea than capitalism.  But only 
>if
you wake
>> up in time.
>>
>>   | -----Original Message-----
>>   | From: L Tremblay [mailto:ltct@concentric.net]
>>   | Sent: Saturday 27 November 1999 10:44 AM
>>   | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>>   | Subject: Re: another millenium argument
>>   |
>>   |
>>   | If you have a better idea than Capitalism I'd like to hear it.
>>   | I'm no fan of McDeath burgers, but don't blame capitalism.
>>   | The alternative is waiting in long lines for loaves of bread
>>   | or dying in a Socialist/Communist government-induced famine.
>>   |
>>   | -  Larry
>>   |
>>   |
>>   | >You are absolutely right .There are much better alternatives
>>   | (for children
>>   | >as well) than eating a poisonous Big Mac in capitalist world 
>kingdom
Mc
>>   | >Donalds.I am also an outsider!
>>   | >
>>   | >
>>   | >> >I think Greg is speaking from cultural conditioning.  There
>>   | is a great
>>   | >deal
>>   | >> >of tortured and misshapen arguments and notions in the US.
Starting
>>   | from
>>   | >> >thinking that it's cool to use gallons instead of liters,
>>   | miles instead
>>   | >of
>>   | >> >kilometers, and that everybody in the Universe speaks English
(Star
>>   | >Trek).
>>   | >> >Same old argument, what's real?
>>   | >
>>   | >
>>   | >
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