-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 9:17 AM -0700 5/8/03, Tim May wrote:
Funny, the word "collectivism" rarely pops up here.
I prefer "communism", myself, anymore. It's more descriptive of the behavior, it's etymologically true, and it gets people's attention. Someday, maybe, in an attempt to "reclaim" the language, I should bash out a crypto-communist (in the Myra Breckenridge sense...) to plain old American English glossary, viz: Communist English - -------- --------- "Capitalism" Economics "Socialist" Communist "Progressive" Communist "Liberal" (modern usage) Communist "Social" <anything> Communist <anything> <anything> |"Democrat" | <anything> Communist "Libertarian" Liberal (original usage) "Reactionary" Liberal (original usage) "Fascist" Liberal (original usage) "Republican" Liberal (original usage) ...and so on... Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPrsa38PxH8jf3ohaEQJeEgCg1YZIn2OIQftNMHT0fxpB1WLtUIAAoLGO YjZog0wepCukMoIyjpHDMPyW =b5N2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'