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To: upcountryhorseman
As I suggested earlier, you are a bit to cavalier with logic.

"Can you name one dictatorship that allows free market capitalism? Socialist countries control more than the means of production: for example, Sweden and Denmark."

The question of what is observed is different from the question of what is a necessity.

For instance, a body that is free from action of a force will continue moving with the same velocity indefinitely. Is this true? Yes, of course: this is the Law of Inertia. Have you seen such a body? Of course not: it is impossible to see a body free of action of any force --- at least because there is Earth's gravity.

Logical relationship among concepts is often different from what is directly observed. Socialism does not logically require dictatorship etc. It has often been argued, successfully, that human nature is such that non-economic freedoms are curtailed after socialism is established. THat well may be but, in an of itself, socialism is nothing but government's ownership of the means of production.

41 posted on 10/12/2009 10:44:08 AM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark

You didn’t answer the question regarding the existance of
a dictatorship that allows free market capitalism. In my opinion, your positions have nothing to do with what is
happening in the real world.


42 posted on 10/14/2009 10:01:46 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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