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Guys, you are on the wrong chat site. I'm sure you can find an authoritarian-naZis-socialist-fascist chat group...it's not interesting for those of us who come to loopers-delight for loop info. Please go away...Om and Out It's a tired boring thread, give it up!!! >From: "Michael S. Yoder" <myoder@tamiu.edu> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Subject: another misuse of "socialism" >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:15:18 -0600 > >At 06:11 AM 11/29/99 PST, you wrote: > >>Don't you mean *authoritarian*? National Socialists and Fascists > >>hate capitalism, because it's based on brains rather than brawn; > >>merit instead of mediocrity. > >THAT'S ABSURD!!! The Nazis, who were socialist in name only (as a way to >"sell" their idea to the masses) were absolutely capitalist. The huge war >machine that they built in WWII made lots of German private military >contractors filthy rich. >Capitalism is based more on trickery and accumulated wealth than on >"brains." >Please stop misusing terms like socialist, etc. There's never been an >authoritarian socialism that I know of. The USSR, etc., also misused the >term. I would hardly call the Israeli Kibbutz, the Mondragon cooperatives, >or Sweden's labor-friendly governance as "authoritarian." > >Michael >================================================================ > >Dr. Michael S. Yoder >Assistant Professor of Geography, Coordinator of Urban Studies >Department of Social Sciences >Texas A&M International University >Laredo, TX 78041 U.S.A. >Telephone: (956)326-2634 Office; (956)326-2464 FAX >E-Mail myoder@tamiu.edu >Web Page: http://tamiu.edu/~myoder/ >================================================================ > >"English ideas about property have given us both the Bill of Rights and >the >industrial slum." (Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.) > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com