From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!inuxd!arlan
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: hey
Article-I.D.: inuxd.262
Posted: Tue Feb 22 23:25:51 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 05:53:36 1983
References: mhuxt.1125

Nothing is wrong with socialism if you are a termite !

For human beings to submit themselves to the dictates of a group
of economic planners [an oxymoron, for morons]
is to invite disaster.  Socialism destroys incentive and promotes
mediocracy.  

These are not theoretical situations:  in the living laboratory of the planet
look at the great successes of socialism--repression, torture, and genocide.
Most of the self-proclaimed socialist countries are ruled by hoodlums
who destroy individual freedoms and offer nothing in return.
Most socialists are not free to travel out of their countries; most dare not print
material without government approval,
and such a net as this can never exist in such totalitarian states.

As Pournell pointed out recently in Analog, a poor Czech got 5 years
at hard labor for possessing an unauthorized mimeo machine!

If you cn defend the excesses, the Soviet empire, the destruction of human values,
then by all means be a socialist.  You will have millions on your
side.  Just don't upset the boys at the top.

For a more 'moderate' against the 'enllightened' socialism you must have
in mind ["moderate arugment", that is: dropped a word], consider
this--no socialist country can feed itself.
Without the capitalist states, the world would starve in vast famines.

Without a more nearly free economy, Silicon Valley, these computers,
and this Net would not have existed.  Note that the socialist buy
their computers from the West, not the other way around.

In a socialist system, there can be no Steven Jobs, no Apple,
no TRS-80, no Osbourne, no Sinclairs...

Now, take your pick of what's wrong with socialism.

My question: is there anything RIGHT about that old sick wornout
socialist philosophy?
--arlan andrews/libertarian/indy