On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I think communism has too many negative connotations to be used nowadays... So communitarian is a new word for the old philosophy. Kinda like progressive as a replacement for statist or whatnot.
-Declan
At 12:20 10/10/2000 -0500, Jim Burnes wrote:
Could someone cogently explain the difference between communitarians and communists?
I get the impression that communitarians were sort of a communist/fascist hybrid, but I'm sure someone has a more elegant explanation.
Yeah. In the dim, dusty recesses of my memory I seem to recall the Communitarian zeal with something the NWO types are calling 'The Third Way'. A way of involving business and government together to create social change. Last time I checked thats called Fascism. But it has a fuzzy "community" flavor to it that smaks of the communist meme. A memetic psychologist would have a field day with it. "The iron hand in a velvet glove" jim -- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural