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

[Carl Remick]

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