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juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 18:10:56 PDT 2017
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:19:21 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: John Newman <jnn at synfin.org>
>
>
> >"Anarcho-capitalism" has more in common with fascism and
> >post-industrial feudalism than any real ideal of freedom and life
> >without coercion. For a fair idea of how it might play out, just
> >look back 150 years to the gilded age - the government was a fuck of
> >a lot smaller, the masses were dirt fucking poor, and they were kept
> >that way by private squads of pinkertoon goons hired by the bosses.
> >This is>"anarcho-capitalism"
> It is dangerous and misleading to compare that era with today. The
> Interstate Highway System didn't begin until the early 1950's.
right the nazi american gov't hadn't created it yet.
> Except in cities, America didn't have what we would recognize as
> "roads" until the 1920's.
oh - you never heard about this thing called RAIL-ROADS?
lol....
> In 1900, half of the population lived on
> farms. Most people didn't have telephones until the 1920's. The
> idea that the large majority of goods would travel at least 1000
> miles to the consumer was preposterous. Did people live "well" by
> today's standards? Certainly not. Was most of the deficiency due to
> oppression by the evil capitalists? Not at all. It is virtually
> impossible to conceive of a modern, national economy without roads,
> trucks, airplanes, etc. So, when you say, "the masses were dirt
> fucking poor", by today's standards that was true. But not by some
> conspiracy. Jim Bell
>
>
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