To: fqued
Words have meanings. If you mean to imply that Arny wants the government to be involved in social concerns that you don't want the government involved in, say that. But the word "socialist" means that the government controls the means of production. Admittedly the meaning has enlarged enough to include a government that taxes the people at a confiscatory rate and then controls the economy almost totally; but that is clearly outside what Arny wants. Actually, it doesn't. That's communism. Never called him a communist. A couple of his advisors might come close to that definition, though.
153 posted on
09/25/2003 4:37:18 PM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(Call upon God to move on our behalf...)
To: EternalVigilance
actually "communism" is at its core an economy theory of history. In practice it is totalitarian, atheistic socialism.
Nothing I wrote about is "communism."
The problem with using words like "communism" is that the emotion content is very high, and the communication content is very low, unless the words are use quite precisely.
193 posted on
09/25/2003 4:56:19 PM PDT by
fqued
(facts are nasty little things, but that doesn't mean we should squash them)
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