Re: CDR: How Free is the Free Market?

2003-01-01 Thread Marc de Piolenc


Matthew X wrote:

 Debt repayment means that commercial banks made bad loans to
 their favorite dictators,  those loans are now being paid by the
 poor,
 who have absolutely nothing to do with it,  of course by the
 taxpayers in the wealthy countries, because the debts are socialized.
 That's under the system of socialism for the rich that we call
 free enterprise: 

Who's we, Professor Chomsky? I sure as hell don't call it that, nor
does any free-market advocate that I know. This is simply a Socialist
striking a straw man, nicht wahr?

Marc




CDR: How Free is the Free Market?

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew X
Chompsky makes the point that the state underwrites the so called free market.
As we are all libertarians,(cept shoate) here we should be doing our utmost 
to expose,ridicule,attack and destroy the state,nest pas?

Of the essence of government... it is a thing apart, developing its own 
interests at the expense of what opposes it; all attempts to make it 
anything else fail.
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912)