Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:18:43 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010927171200.0181fef0@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
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At 03:33 PM 9/27/2001, you wrote: >Someone once remarked that communism is a religion, because no >communist is willing to name a mistake or failing of its founders >(Marx, Lenin, etc); only gods don't make mistakes. True enough. >Capitalism is also a religion to many people in the US, because they >aren't willing to admit that there may be deficiencies in the >capitalist world view, that free markets don't cure all ills. It is >correct, everything else is wrong, infidel, dangerous. In the 1950s >many of America's best and brightest people were persecuted by this >capitalist (anti-communist) dogma. You have so many inaccurate characterizations of Americans that I begin to wonder where you get them from. Show me the American that thinks capitalism is without flaws. Does any American on this list believe it? The greatest right in America is bitching about the ills of this country, and we exercise it to the fullest. Perhaps the difference is that we sort of "keep it in the family" and deal with it domestically (where we are undoubtedly most concerned), but I have yet to meet the American that doesn't have a gripe with our economic structure. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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