> At 04:41 PM 2/15/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
> >At 03:43 PM 2/15/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> > >
> > >I believe the joke is: capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and
> > >communism is just the reverse,
> >
> >No, that's not it.
>
> yes, it is. that was what you implied: you chose to insert your
> conservative-libertarian notions on a lefty list and insist that they
> *must* be fooling themselves and/or others if they can't possibly see that
> their view of the world simply has to be unfree and, ultimately,
> unequal. in other words, you're asking people to defend the radical left
> to you. ditto matt.
Nope. The joke Justin mentions above is exactly what I was getting at when I replied to whoever said "the left is the party of freedom and equality" with "yeah well the right sez the same thing about themselves".
I added *whoosh* - the sound of my point flying by you - because I didn't think you were getting the joke. Apparently you still aren't.
> maybe you should both read the intro to the list
> again, because that's not what this space is for. lefties have to defend
> their friggin' views everywhere and doug created this space so it could be
> free of that nonsense. there's enough of it among us, ferchrisakes.
I have no idea what wierd interpretation leads you to believe my comment was a challenge to defend a view, other than you are *looking* to start a fight. I'm not.
Matt
-- Matt Cramer <cramer at voicenet.com> http://www.voicenet.com/~cramer/ "Hold your fire" - that's what I told the FBI.
-Kool Keith