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Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 9:52
Quoting Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...>:

> Since some ppl can get away with it and not be criticized like I was:
Don't you fear; we're shortly going to learn we're alive to suffer!
> _My_ opinion: The gov't doesn't own anything (hopefully!), it just keeps it > ready for us when we need it.
Which "the go'vt" and who "we"?
> Gov't is ppl ruling themselves - it should be, > anyway.
What should and is are rarely exactly the same.
> And (if it's run properly) it's clean and provides services to us > citizens. I like socialism (democratic socialism) because it is designed to > put the citizens in power and implements social programs to help _everyone_, > whereas in _capitalistic_ gov'ts we are ruled by a wealthy elite who doesn't > give a damn about our well-being! Corruption is a great ex. of this!
Capitalists (in the sense of people who support capitalism as a political creed, not people with plenty of capital) are going to disagree with that description ... Andreas