Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means

Urbane Guerrilla · 06-08-2007, 11:02 AM

Pierce, are you trying to tell me you think communist countries prosper?

Because that's quite the wrong answer. Communist countries are all about organizing the scarcity, not creating the wealth.

Communist countries do not prosper.

Flint · 06-08-2007, 11:08 AM

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...organizing the scarcity, not creating the wealth...

I ask this from a deliberate perspective of naiveté, but are there not a finite amount of resources?

Not so much to provoke a lesson in why system A is better/worse than system B, but . . . what is "wealth" anyway?

If there is a finite amount of stuff you can possess, is "wealth" how much more you have than others? Or is it the power to take what you want?

TheMercenary · 06-08-2007, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

I ask this from a deliberate perspective of naiveté, but are there not a finite amount of resources?

Not so much to provoke a lesson in why system A is better/worse than system B, but . . . what is "wealth" anyway?

If there is a finite amount of stuff you can possess, is "wealth" how much more you have than others? Or is it the power to take what you want?

If you simply begin with the first question of what is wealth? you will have to address the subsequent answers within the context of different societies. i.e. wealth in the Sudan is different from wealth in the US is different from wealth in Bolivia. I do believe that you are on to something, in some countries wealth is not always material.

piercehawkeye45 · 06-08-2007, 04:14 PM

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Pierce, are you trying to tell me you think communist countries prosper?

No, I am just strongly against the idea of "spreading democracy". If another country wants to become democratic, let them. If they don't, fine. The US hasn't really been sponsors democracies anyways, just puppet states.

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Because that's quite the wrong answer. Communist countries are all about organizing the scarcity, not creating the wealth.

It’s a different philosophy so you will get different results. I do not think communism works either because of various reasons.

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