obvious that the
comprimise was successful.
Bryan
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Would we have seen an increasing
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There are a lot of abstractions that it'd help to qualify in that
last
statement. For instance: which government programs (FDR's right-to-
work
packages? LBJ's war on Poverty
A friend told me about her grandfather, on a striking picket line at Ford
Motor Co. in freezing winter, during the Depression. The poor workers,
peacefully striking on government streets, were sprayed with water by the
Detroit fire department, who was there with the police. The water rapidly
If there was a capitalistic system with very few or no poor people, it's
answer to the question of the poor would be extremely interesting.
Tom Grey
Taiwan has develped rapidly while maintaining a distribution of income more
equal than that of Sweden.
It was able to do this with land reform
--- Bryan Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would we have seen an increasing level of social unrest had capitalism been
left alone?
Has/was capitalism been saved?
There seem to be two different meanings of capitalism here.
1) capitalism left alone implies a pure market or close to it.
2) been
That was certainly Bismarck's theory when he introduced them to Germany in
the 1870's. It was a part of an effort to undermine the Social Democratic
Party in Germany.
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There are a lot of abstractions that it'd help to qualify in that last
statement. For instance: which government programs (FDR's right-to-work
packages? LBJ's war on Poverty)? Whose calls for the U.S. to abandon
capitalism? What is a safety net [...] for capitalism as a whole?
We need
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There are a lot of abstractions that it'd help to qualify in that last
statement. For instance: which government programs (FDR's right-to-work
packages? LBJ's war on Poverty)? Whose calls for the U.S. to abandon
capitalism
Most observers have always been very surprised that there never was a
big demand for socialism in the United States - even at the height of
the depression. The New Deal was very much driven by the Executive
branch not by Congress - thus I think things could have been quite
different had
and to US
socialism. Thus it would follow that limited govt interventions in the
market actually saved capitalism.
Lynn
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that limited govt interventions in the
market actually saved capitalism.
Lynn
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There are a lot of abstractions
Most observers have always been very surprised that there never was a
big demand for socialism in the United States - even at the height of
the depression. The New Deal was very much driven by the Executive
branch not by Congress - thus I think things could have been quite
different
there was a strong socialist movement in the
U.S. to begin with, so I don't know how legitimate the question is.
-JP
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Would we have seen an increasing level of social unrest had capitalism been
left alone?
Has/was capitalism been saved?
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Has/was capitalism been saved?
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