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From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Socialism is the ownership and management of all property by the state
> with the elimination of private property.
>
> Feudalism is the situation where within a geographic area EVERYTHING is
> property and owned by a single INDIVIDUAL.
>
> Why you would claim they're equivalent is mind boggling. Oh, wait. I get
> it. If the only tool you have is a hammer then everything looks like a
> nail.
I'm using other definitions. Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a
transaction by those not involved). Socialism: interference by the
government in some / all transactions. [Example: every country.] Communism:
the state owns everything, everybody is an employee. Nazism: the state
claims to allow private property, but regulates everything; state ownership
de facto, if not de jure. Feudalism: someone claims to own everything,
including the individuals, using force. Subset of nazism, which is a subset
of socialism.
> A century ago? You dipshit the Ottoman Empire fell apart in the late
> 1800's while the first Communist theories formed in the late 1800's and
> the first communist state formed in 1917.
We switched slower. We had people assasinated by foreign powers as late as
1907, and maybe even more. We have only become a free nation in 1918.
> > Between the two World Wars, Romania was one of the richest countries in
> > Eastern Europe; we had a gold coin, we exported grains to the whole
Europe,
>
> ONLY because the Allies who WON WWII set it up that way. Didn't manage to
> keep it long did you....
Er... you definitely have a reading problem (or a thinking problem <g>).
"BETWEEN the two WWs" is BEFORE the allies won the 2nd WW (oh, and btw, we
fought the Nazis for almost a year and they called us collaborationists,
while France fought them for 17 days and they were the great anti-Nazis.
Well, international politics...)
Mark
