From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!jj
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: Socialism
Article-I.D.: rabbit.1162
Posted: Thu Feb 24 12:58:14 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 05:00:41 1983
References: mhuxt.1125 <262@inuxd.UUCP> mhb5b.136

	 I suggest that those of you who espouse socialism, AND
those of you who espouse unrestrained capitalism without controls
(especially considering some  labor regulation) study the effects on the individual when the
individual loses control of his own destiny, and the resultant effects
of that loss of control on society.
	For references, both in current and historical events,
and in the scholastic vein, I suggest:
	1)  Present day Poland
	2)  Present day USSR economy, especially the farm system
and the heavy industry system.	
	3)  Pre- WWII Germany, and the willingness to subscribe to a
nationwide psychosis.
	4)  Seligman, "Hopelessness", currently in print.
	5)  Lebanon, 1983.

	Please consider, when you post your idealistic solutions to the
world's problems (or your own, for that matter), that the human race
consists of individuals, each of whom suffers in some unique way when
you take away his/her freedom to self-determination.  Furthermore, please
consider the historical effects of such behavior.

rabbit!jj