Re: reflections on the current crisis
On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
Now I’m confused. I’d read this comment as expressing Naderite
sympathy toward socialism — i.e., that the state is forever
saddled with the loser’s role of “lemon socialism,” cleaning up the
operational and financial wreckage of harebrained schemes concocted
by the destructive creators of the private sector.
Everything else in Ralph’s record suggests that he loves small-scale
competitive capitalism, from that denunciation of public housing that
was practically his first published work forward.