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To: TheOracle
You don't need government sanction, you need government protection

We would all agree with this.

Saying that "Capitalism is a government program", though is not only wrong, but Marxian.

23 posted on 01/13/2002 8:57:15 AM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard
Saying that "Capitalism is a government program", though is not only wrong, but Marxian.

I think some are getting hung up on the phrase "government program"; I wouldn't be surprised if Will used it as a dig at liberals. I don't think he meant "hand-out", which is the goal of many social programs and perhaps what people are responding to. Providing a legal framework for capitalism is (or should be) a government program in the same way that national defense is (or should be) a government program. I don't think an idea is automatically Marxist just because it uses the phrase.

37 posted on 01/13/2002 9:21:32 AM PST by TheOracle
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