Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:23:14 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010928142314.B7471@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3BB43B65.C3ED251F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:57:09AM -0700 References: <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB43B65.C3ED251F@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Sep 28, 2001 at 01:57:09: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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. > > Standard Oil. IBM. Microsoft. Antitrust. Enough said. No, say some more. Antitrust is a capitalist idea. It is also a good idea, I happen to think, though the Republicans disagree. It doesn't follow that all capitalist ideas are good ideas, if that's what you're implying -- if not, I don't understand what you're implying at all. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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