An apology to ...Re history of word "idiot"

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Thu Oct 15 06:09:42 PDT 1998


Re Carrol's: "Of course socialism does not consist in dividing up income and wealth. How silly. Socialism consists in a profound transformation in the relations of production, in the political control of the means and forces of production."

Excellent point. I think soak-the-rich taxation is a sound idea -- *not* as an end in itself but as a means toward restructuring the nature of work and creating a more egalitarian society in every way. Simply to redistribute wealth generated by the crass, demeaning or often utterly insane enterprises that dominate the marketplace today would accomplish little.

Carl Remick



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