Re: Re: My Take on Competition

[Jim Devine]

At 03:05 PM 6/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Economics is only disguised political theory. Neither rent nor 
>intellectual property can exist without the presence of an armed state. 
>Hence they are in material reality a gift from the state to particular 
>individuals.

can _capitalism_ exist without the presence of a coercive state?

BTW, my article on political theory (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau & all that) 
was recently published in POLITICS & SOCIETY (vol. 28(2), June 2000). The 
leisure of the theory class...

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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