Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]'Tis my last post on this unless we move it to the LUGForum On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:35 AM, Darrell Jennings wrote: > Communism is jut Nazism done in the name of "the > people" which is total bullshit since it is always > really done in the name of a charasmatic leader > (Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc.). "Communism" is a very diverse ideology these days - and you'll find a number of true Marxist throwbacks who oppose the authoritarian varieties as much as anyone. And most socialists have rejected the USSR for decades - starting with Debs in 1919 and continuing on. The other is that while Stalinist Communism and Nazism are both authoritarian and nationalist in nature, Nazism drew its support from the capitalists and industrialists of the mid-war period, because it strove to give them more power. > Capitalism is far from perfect (but then so are we > humans), but it at least leverages motivated self > interest which is human nature. Any system that > ignores that is clueless. Why is "motivated self interest" associated only with "capitalism"? If you live in a vaguely communal society, what's good for you is good for the entirety of society and vice versa. The true problem with capitalism is that it creates to classes of people - the haves and the have-nots. You see it everyday here in the States, people living on the streets. But on a larger level, it's the wealth of the first-world against the abject poverty of the third. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html