On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 23:38 10/9/2000 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
I seem to remember Etzioni being tied into the Communitarian movement as well.
Right. In fact, that's an understatement.
He's essentially the anti-cypherpunk: Regulate corporations' data collection practices strictly, but don't regulate the governments' practices.
-Declan
Could someone cogently explain the difference between communitarians and communists?
Can anyone cogently explain the difference between the color violet and the color purple? (Or maybe one should say the color "rose" and "red").
I get the impression that communitarians were sort of a communist/fascist hybrid, but I'm sure someone has a more elegant explanation.
I get the same impression--They seem like National (as opposed to International) Socialists. -- 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