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Competition
Karl Marx, German socialist and journalist, wrote: "Capitalism will kill competition." Those who believe in capitalism also believe in competition. Today's capitalism is largely monopolistic, with a few monolithic corporations co-existing with many......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-01 21:23:50 | Rating:

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Rationing and Health-Care
In today's tempestuous arguments, we hear people talking about and against a government rationing of health-care services. The conservatives are against government rationing of such services. The conservatives use rationing as a negative and pejorative expression, as if......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-01 22:17:10 | Rating:

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Chile's Sepember 11 (3)
This third message continues the series of comments on Salvador Allende's first speech to the Chilean parliament after being elected President in 1970. In the section is titled Our Road to Socialism , Allende wrote: "To achieve these aspirations means a long road and......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-03 13:10:19 | Rating:

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Freedom: A Debate
R. A.: What is real freedom if it is not the freedom to produce, acquire and enjoy what I need in order to live a full life? M. P.: It is freedom to try to do that. R. A.: Is it freedom for an imprisoned human being to try to escape? If so, is this freedom......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-11 10:28:01 | Rating:

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Freedom: A Debate
R. A.: Capitalism gives to the propertied capitalists much more freedom than it gives to the propertyless proletariat . When ideological capitalists talk about freedom, they are not talking about, or talking to the wage-working proletariat . When the topic......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-11 13:53:23 | Rating:

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Freedom: A Debate
This is an answer to a comment posted by parott07: parott07 wrote: Freedom is in the mind of the beholder whether perceived or evident, and then the mind doesn't always have freedom. Ron Allen answers: You have made two different, perhaps opposed,......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-11 16:55:35 | Rating:

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Freedom: A Debate
This is an answer to a comment posted by parott07: parott07 wrote: Because one believe they behold freedom doesn't necessarily mean they have it. Ron Allen answers: One can get a glimpse of freedom, even if one does not enjoy freedom. However, every human being......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-12 11:06:04 | Rating:

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Marxian Socialism: A Debate
R. A.: From each person according to their unique and individual abilities; to each person according to their unique and individual needs. This is the material foundation of human freedom and dignity. If the famous communist formula sounds like lyrical poetry, in my......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-12 11:21:51 | Rating:

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Private Property: A Debate
R. A.: We need a place to live; we need a place to work: and, it is private property which denies and disclaims our freedom of access to what we need. M. P.: I have both. Where is the denial? K. M.: Well, if you are doing fine, then there's no problem, right?......Read More

Posted on: 2009-10-12 11:56:50 | Rating:

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Property and Labor: A Debate
R. A.: If one needs property, or money to participate in markets, . . . M. P.: You don't. Plenty of people without property or money participate in markets. They are called the prolateriat. Learn your own damn theory. R. A.: The proletariat own property in......Read More