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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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- " S o c i a l i s m " - - D e a d ?
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- "Is socialism dead? Is capitalism the wave of the future?
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- "The short answer is that socialism cannot be dead because it
- hasn't been born yet. No state has ever been organized along
- genuinely socialist lines. This may seem like a cop-out, a way of
- defending socialism by definition, by claiming that no failure
- could ever discredit the socialist project because it wasn't
- "true" socialism.
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- "Such a position has its dangers, but it cannot be avoided.
- Socialism must be defined minimaly as a society in which all the
- major institutions are owned and [democratically] controlled by
- the people, and by all the people: obviously not just
- capitalitsts, but also not just a party claiming to rule on behalf
- of the working class. And by this definition there has never been
- a socialist society."
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- Stephen R. Shalom, "Capitalism Triumphant?, Z magazine, April
- 1989.
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- [For more about Z, email harelb@math.cornell.edu]
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