CDR: Re: Fwd: Re: anarchism = socialism

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Thu Oct 5 10:36:30 PDT 2000


At 11:57 AM -0500 10/5/00, Sean Roach wrote:
>At 12:30 AM 10/5/2000, Tim May wrote:
>
>>  That you would say "beautiful sentiment" to the overall article 
>>you quoted is...scary.
>
>Perhaps I misspoke. What I meant to get across was that the article 
>was compelling, but I didn't believe it was practicle.
>  26 megabytes is a bit much, I should have pared the original down 
>to the parts I was actually attacking. Anyway, this was one of those 
>yes, but... responses.


Still scary.

Like saying "Socialism is a beautiful idea, but it won't work."

Or, "We should sacrifice ourselves for the herd, but we're not moral 
enough to do the right thing."

These sentiments are perniciously evil.

(I won't launch into a rant on this. Others have said it better over 
the decades and centuries.)

You need to think very carefully about why it is you think that the 
socialist sentiments, and the blather about profits belonging to the 
laborers, are "beautiful" or "compelling." They are not. They are 
flawed for many reasons, and not at all 'beautiful."


--Tim May
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