<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Doug Henwood writes: "I  do think, however, that <BR>there's a lot that's valuable in the technology and organization that <BR>capitalist society has achieved. "</DIV> <DIV>Yes, indeed and economic history backs it up, in general. But the way you express it id too broad and exclusionary proposition to test. Non- capitalist i.e. non laissez faire economies, such as Japan Meiji's  and certainly, (otherwise show proof to the contrary) the planned economies of the SU and China have achieved "a lot that is valuable in tachnology and organization"</DIV> <DIV>Most of the advances in technology are achieved by zealous, furiously dedicated scientists and technicians stubbornly bent in solving a problem without considerations of financial reward, mostly working in the obscurity of academics or even in monasteries as in the case of genetics.No capitalist was around when the first genes were discovered or the first bacteria was detected and vaccines were created.</DIV> <DIV>Cristobal Senior</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>