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Could I see the original post? Idon't recognize this as mine...
DDeBar
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Welfare <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Quote of the Day: if a country is socialist it isn't


>In a message dated 8/7/99 1:31:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>> it implies
>>  that the decision-making process could not lead to the large-scale
poverty
>>  and powerlessness that currently exists.
>
>Your argument is counterfactual and does not address the need for policies
>concerning this problem.  Obviously, starving people are not going to seize
>the means of power for controlling the decision-making process.  Hence, the
>onus is upon those who are capable if the political-ethical capability is
>even within the human purview.  Decision making processes can lead to large
>scale poverty; therefore the importance of competency.
>
>Vunch
>