Communism

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 30 15:04:48 PDT 2002



> >>In any case, this is not a relevant issue in this context. In a
>democratic society, economic priorities will be determined democratically.
> >
> >And democracy is an arena free from conflict? That's silly. Democracy is
>a means for resolving conflict. The losers--the minority--have to put up
>with what the winners want.
>
>Certainly. But all they have lost is an argument. The context is conflict
>of *interest*, I have never said there would be no disagreements about
>priorities. But this came up in the context of the need for legal
>arbitration of disputes and I was merely pointing out that decisions about
>economic priorities would be arbitrated by vote, not according to a set of
>rules.

What people decide democratically is what rules to adopt. Also they do it _according to_ rules of democratic procedure.

jks

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