Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"? (Explorations of "self-interest") Message-ID: <292@kontron.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 17:08:28 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.292 Posted: Thu Jun 27 17:08:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:31:37 EDT References: <298@spar.UUCP><1583@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 22 > The result of this general need for cooperation is that we delegate the > authority to decide many behaviour patterns to some authority, which we > call a government. Apart from dogmatists, complaints arise mainly when > the government attempts to regulate behaviour in the absence of potential > conflict. > -- > > Martin Taylor > {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt > {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt The dogmatists have arisen because it has become clear during this century that while individuals may delegate authority to a government, the government is unwilling, or unable, to restrict itself to the areas of authority that were originally delegated to it. The worst manifestation of this is the manner in which democratic governments turned into totalitarian governments because of pressure from the population for immediate solutions to economic and social problems. I doubt very much that the modern libertarian movement would exist, were it not for the evil wrought by the democratically elected governments of Hitler & Mussolini.