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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"? (Explorations of "self-interest")
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 17:08:28 EDT
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> 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.