Re: another misuse of "socialism"

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

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
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