[extropy-chat] Socialism versus Transhumanism

[Max M]

Jose Cordeiro wrote:

>      Thank you for your reply to my original Email, which was mostly meant for the WTA since there are many socialists there.


I just want to note, that there is a wide spectrum between 
libertarianism and socialism.

Not being libertarian doesn not mean that one is a socialist!

Furthermore it is quite easy to be liberal in some areas and socialist 
in other areas.

Being a social democrat also means that you are agreeing with a system 
that has been prooved to work pretty well in several nations.

Being libertarian means that you support a theoretical system that is 
supposed to work as in the economic theory.

It's just like most medical trials, they allways works in theory. Often 
they also work in the petri dish on single cells. But when it comes to 
working in the whole body as actuall medicine, they allmost allways fail.

So while I don't considder myself to be a socialist/social democrat, 
they have a better argument in my book than the libertarians, as they 
can back it with prooven facts, working systems and humane societies.

Libertarianism still has to proove it's worth.


regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark