Re: It's all about gasoline!

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From: Duke Kahanamoku
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04

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On Jun 8, 10:57 pm, Larry in AZ <usen...@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com>
wrote:
> Waiving the right to remain silent, Duke Kahanamoku <clipper.sm...@gmail.com>
> said:
>
> > Socialism is an economic system wherein each enterprise is wholly
> > owned by its employees, ie there are no absentee owners of a socialist
> > enterpris, and, all employees of a socialist enterprise participate in
> > the profits of their enterprise in a meaningful way.
>
> Which has yet to happen.  "Socialized enterprise" usually results in
> everything being reduced to the lowest common denominator, and everyone doing
> barely what's necessary to collect a paycheck.

You are mixing two ideas again. I didn't say "socialized enterprise."
I said "socialist enterprise." These two are different. A socialized
enterprise is like a universal health care system that is subsidized
by public taxes. But you are wrong about what happens to them. There
are several such socialized health care systems in operation in
nations around the globe, and they are doing well. You won't find many
people in Australia or Norway, for examples, who want to dismantle
those health care systems.

> As some of the former Communists in the USSR were fond of saying, "We pretend
> to work, and the government pretends to pay us."

That wasn't socialism. It wasn't even state socialism. It was
totalitarianism. Socialism requires democracy.

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