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--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mario
> It is not correct that Mr Galambos is using "the
> dictionary version of the word conservative, which
> he should know has been turned on its head in the
> USA by modern political usage" as you say. What you
> are referrinng to is pseudo contemporary
> revisionist usage which is working hard to make
> American globalised capitalism palatable to a highly
> skeptical, but informed and knowledgeable world
> audience.
>
Mario responds:
>
The dictionary version of the word conservative is at
odds with modern political usage in the US.
>
John Mill was a student and associate of Adam Smith
and John Ricardo, who were classic free market
liberals, the exact opposite of todays
socialist-leaning political liberals.
>
Classic conservatism encourages the status quo. You
have admitted above that the US is "working hard" to
make capitalism palatable globally, i.e. change the
status quo. This can hardly be called classic
conservatism by any logical person.
>
It is precisely because the world audience is better
informed and knowledgeable now that socialism has been
relegated to the thrash heap of history, where it
rightfully belongs, and most of it's previous major
proponents like Russia, China and India are
desperately implementing various versions of
capitalism in an attempt to recover from the economic
disaster they had wrought upon themselves.
>
Even the major European countries are now trying to
change their stagnant semi-socialist economies.
>
All the countries in the western hemisphere from
Mexico to Argentina have natural resources that equal
those found in North America. What distinguishes
their comparatively chronically struggling and sick
economies are the varying degrees of socialism that
they have inflicted upon themselves.
>
One of the largest oil-firms in the USA, CITGO, is
100% owned by the government of Venezuela. So much
for the US "exploiting" Venezuela's resources.
>
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