The thing is, I'm not all that sure that a planned economy would last that long in a democratic government. This is really my root problem with "socialism."
Christopher E. Doss Moscow, Russian Federation
--- On Sun, 2/22/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Soros, Volcker, Depression, Nationalization
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 9:46 PM
> On 2/22/09, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What the hell does that mean, practically speaking?
> >
> >
>
> Read literally, a planned economy in the hands of a
> democratic
> government, I think. But then other dictionaries substitute
> "worker"
> for "social," et cetera, which would lead to
> broader definitions.
>
> As far as it's actually used, "socialism" is
> about as useless as a
> word gets. Who's pretending that Sweden, the Soviet
> Union, and
> Anarchist Spain had anything in common that they didn't
> share with
> every other society to exist? And that's just among the
> definitions
> proferred by people who actually claim to like what the
> word
> signifies, whatever it does.
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