[PEN-L:33279] Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>

> > Even some socialists see "socialism" as merely referring to state
ownership of the means of production, not caring who or what owns the
state.
>
> There's a big diff between interference so called and ownership, even
if the ownership is merely public and not democratic.
>
> jks

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Aren't governments unownable by definition? Sure some factions/classes
may think the government their personal property, but don't we deride
that as delusional? Non-interference in "the market" is a legal
impossibility, no?


Ian