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To: AndyJackson
What is happening is not socialism. It is state sponsored corporatism a la 3rd world dictatorships.

Sure seems like National Socialism to me.

53 posted on 09/19/2008 7:56:06 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Sure seems like National Socialism to me.

Yes, but National Socialism, i.e. fascism involves collusion between the state and the owners of industry to further the aims of both (Germany, Italy, Argentina and Chile in the bad old days). It is grounded in the totalitarian power of those at the top. The evil of socialism is not that is not trying to be benevolent, which in Northern Europe, for the most part, it actually was, but rather the dillusion that people are better off with central planning rather than individual freedom.

114 posted on 09/19/2008 9:54:52 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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