Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:33:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>
>> >> You seem to miss that Sweden and a large portion of the Commonwealth
>> >> of Nations operate under some form of democratic socialism.
>> >
>> > You mean democracies with proper market economy and just some
>> > socialist tendencies.
>>
>> That's modern socialism, my friend.
>>
> I will again quote from Wikipedia:
>
> "As an economic system, socialism is often characterized by state or
> community ownership of the means of production."
>
> Please explain how in the world you have a true market economy when the
> private interests don't even control the means of production?
Key basic needs of society are controlled.
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