And some clay is mud. On Feb 1, 7:06�am, "M.A. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Capitalism isthe system in which people are free to use their > private property without outside interference. > WHERE is this "practised" and hence demonstrated a failure? > Regard$, > --MJ > If I had to point out the characteristic trait that > differentiates socialism from [a proper view of the > political economy], I should find it here. Socialism > includes a countless number of sects. Each one has > its own utopia, and we may well say that they are so > far from agreement that they wage bitter war upon one > another. Between M. Blanc's organized social workshops > and M. Proudhon's anarchy, between Fourier's > association and M. Cabet's communism, there is > certainly all the difference between night and day. > What then, is the comon denominator to which all forms > of socialism are reducible, and what is the bond that > unites them against natural society, or society as > planned by Providence? There is none except this: > They do not want natural society. What they want is > an artificial society, which has come forth full-grown > from the brain of its inventor... They quarrel over > who will mould the human clay, but they agree that > there is human clay to mould. Mankind is not in their > eyes a living and harmonious being endowed by God > Himself with the power to progress and to survive, > but an inert mass that has been waiting for them to > give it feeling and life; human nature is not a subject > to be studied, but matter on which to perform experiments. > -- Fr�d�ric Bastiat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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