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> > From: Harry Veeder <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: The State
> > Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 2:44 PM
> >
> > On Fri, 2 May 1997, DDeBar wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think that the State was, or is, responsible for the anarchy of
> > > production in a free-market capiitalism, yet, such anarchy does, and
> will,
> > > always accompany such economies.
> > >
> > There is only "anarchy" with in a small domain: free market capitalism.
> > The existing world wide network of banks is designed to sastify the
> > requirements of captilasm. This is not a conspiracy, IT IS JUST A
> > POLITICAL FACT.
> >
> > True (economic)anarchy will only happen when different banking systems
> are
> > allowed to thrive and coexist. This will require a democratic rather than
> an
> > autocratic approach to banking.
> >
> > Democratically yours
> >
> > Harry
>
> A capitalist economy is RIFE with anarchy. Duplication, redundancy,
> starvation and waste, unemployment and underemployment, huge disparities of
> wealth and poverty, crises of over- and under-production, irrationality in
> resource allocation, etc., etc., i.e., economic anarchy. All of these
> problems are attributable to the fantasy that subordinating the good of the
> vast majority of humanity to the "laws" of the market will produce a just
> outcome. This is true for the minority who benefit from this arrangement,
> but for the majority of human beings, it is a criminal theft of their right
> and ability to survive and grow to their potential. This fact, i.e., the
> fact of the economic oppression of the majority by the minority, regardless
> of whatever philosophical rationale is applied, only results in a great
> deal of social and political unrest, "crime", war, revolution, etc.,, or
> socio-political anarchy. The role of the State in the present is to attempt
> to mitigate these effects in order to protect the position and property of
> the economic elite, and to render ineffective any attempt to upset the
> status quo.
>
> Don DeBar
>