Internet taxation is on the way!

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> source software (ie; Linux) then Redhat, the company, wouldn't exist.
>> There is absolutely nothing Socialist about open source.  In fact is
>> more Capitalist than Closed Source.
>>
>
> As with a lot of Americans, you are conflating socialism with
> communism (Marx/Lenin's foolish ideas of socialism as a gateway to
> communism notwithstanding). There is nothing in any pure socialist
> doctrine which forbids profit-making enterprise, as you can see from
> the type of socialism practised in England throughout the 60s and
> early 70s.
>
> Certainly my preferred form of socialism revolves around the idea of
> legislated "fairness" (unions, co-operative ownership) in a system of
> commerce which outwardly resembles capitalism. Thus both progress and
> profit are possible without the moral relativism inherent in a pure
> capitalist system which practises "trickle-down" free market
> fundamentalism.
>
> The wikipedia page is a mine of badly researched drivel, but if you
> want to read some modern socialism you could do far worse than
> something like George Monbiot's Age Of Consent.
>

I may check that out.  I admit I find it difficult to understand the
differences between Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and Stalinism.  I
think most people here in the US equate Socialist with Evil because of
old Cold War prejudices.  Which were the result of years of propaganda
campaigns by the US government.

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