Re: NACLA on RCTV

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/7/07, David B. Shemano <dshemano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And you have to criticize poor dead Milton [Friedman, not John, the author of PARADISE LOST].  If I thought you had read the pages of Capitalism and Freedom that I referenced, let alone understood them, I would ask you to explain the flaw in Milton's argument.  But since I don't think you have any idea what his argument was, I won't bother.<

BTW, even though this is not aimed at me, I _have_ read those pages.
In my studies of the world and my personal experience, I have found
them to be inaccurate again and again. So for me, the benefits of
going back to read those pages again are far exceeded by the costs.
(There's a utilitarian argument!)

I do know that the main logical flaw of his argument is the false
analogy between MF's bowdlerized and sanitized vision of capitalism
and the real world of capitalism.
--
Jim Devine /  "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.