11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
12:22 p.m.
In a message dated 12/11/2003 10:04:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, declan@well.com writes:
If that is true, why can't it simply be called "capitalist?"
I suspect because actual capitalists would have some problems with it.
Sterling makes a comment betraying what Ludwig Von Mises called the anti-capitalist mentality when he quipped to Godwin: "Sure, we hate Exxon because they're huge and they're everywhere." Sterling is a capitalist in the same way that Brin is a libertarian. I think what it is, both are uncomfortable with really labeling what their true ideology is and therefore feel some need to candy coat their statism. Regards, Matt Gaylor-