At 1:22 PM -0400 10/10/00, 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
Why give them a term which, at least to some, sounds noble?
Communitarian, indeed!
No one gave them the term, the adopted it for themselves.
I favor the more descriptive term: simp-wimps.
What is wrong with "Statist pricks"? -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** 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