On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> Now *I'm* confused. I'd read this comment as expressing Naderite
> sympathy toward socialism -- i.e., that the state is forever
> saddled with the loser's role of "lemon socialism," cleaning up the
> operational and financial wreckage of harebrained schemes concocted
> by the destructive creators of the private sector.
Everything else in Ralph's record suggests that he loves small-scale competitive capitalism, from that denunciation of public housing that was practically his first published work forward.