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RE: Re: BHA: Let me ask



Bwanika,

Probably there are many different meanings of utopian societies.  Some
folks' utopias would be socialistic, others would not.

Moodey

At 01:04 PM 05/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Moodey


...and then what is meant by utopian, eudiomonistic societies and there inherent characteristic, or their sameness to socialistic societies?


Bwanika

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Richard Moodey <moodey001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Bwanika,
>
>People living in underground rail tunnels does not result from human
>passiveness, but from vigorous human activity. Quite simply, the activity
>is highly competitive, and the glorification of winning has resulted in
>there being many losers. Furthermore, the winners have managed to restrict
>the degree to which "their" wealth can be redistributed to the economic
>losers. They have successfully labeled all redistribution which benefits
>the poor as being "socialistic" or even "communistic" (allowing, of course,
>for the "capitalistic" redistribution of more wealth to the already
>affluent. This same logic, by the way, is applied to the relations among
>rich and poor nations as well as to rich and poor people inside the USA.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dick
>
>At 04:25 AM 05/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Listers
>>
>>I hear that the USA is the world's richest nation. However, documentaries
>>i.e. from urban centers show something I had never seen in Africa.
>>
>>People, and knowledge permitting the conditions, which one can see
>>abundantly, underground rail networks turned into permanent homes.
>>
>>What does the American society really think about this issue in a
>>transformative sense, is there anything wrong with the present social
>>setting and democratic values?
>>
>>What does bhaskar think about this nature of human passiveness?
>>
>>
>>Bwanika
>>
>>
>>
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