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To: Tailgunner Joe
The extreme left is characterized by the total control of the means of production, which is an impossibility,(though not for lack of trying) because of an individual's ability to barter or black market under any totalitarian system yet devised.

The extreme right of the spectrum would be the opposite. No control of the means of production. Some call it "Anarchy", whereas I prefer the term "Utopia".

The terms "Liberal" and "Conservative" engender confusion, especially to students of history, due to the evolution of the term "Liberal" from that of an anti-statist to that of a statist-socialist. While the term "Conservative" has such a defeatist connotation without context. To "conserve" what? The status quo of 1984, 1954, 1860, 1789?

It seems that in the era of mass "miscommunication", the only real use for the terms "Liberal" and "Conservative" is to enable politicians and pundits to engage in sophistry en masse.

48 posted on 07/08/2002 7:01:51 PM PDT by muleboy
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To: muleboy
The extreme right of the spectrum would be the opposite. No control of the means of production. Some call it "Anarchy", whereas I prefer the term "Utopia".

You are confusing economics with government. No control over the means of production is not anarchy, it is Free Enterprise. Anarchy is an absence of all government. Government is required to ensure that Free Enterprise will flourish. The first duty of our government is to protect our private property. If we had no government, very few people would have any private property.

Anarchosyndicalists like yourself extol lawless capitalism, not Free Enterprise. The best example of succesful anarchosyndicalism is the Mafia.

59 posted on 07/09/2002 1:00:59 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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