At 12:52 PM 1/29/96, C.N.Gomersall wrote: >Stripped to its essentials, economic freedom is concerned with property >rights and choice. Individuals are economically free if property they have >legally acquired is protected from invasions or intrusions by others, and >if they are free to use, exchange or give away their property so long as >their actions do not violate other people's similar rights." And so on. Without Marxian notions of exploitation, it's very difficult to refute this sort of thing, further proof of the importance of what I called practical Marxism the other day. How do liberals (American sense) respond to this? By extending the notion of property to God- and/or Constitution-given "rights"? That leads you to the elitist dead-end of litigation and Supreme Court worship. Any liberals out there who can help me out? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
