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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thomas wrote:</div> <br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Our present "mixed" economy could not exist without some free market</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">elements to mix with the fascism and socialism. The equality in this context refers to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">impartial justice, not individual differences.</div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I agree with this. Although it is surprising to hear this coming from</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a wild-eyed liber. ;)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BillK</div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I confess I do have a wild left eye, but my right one sees straight. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I've individuated from the libertarian camp in a couple ways:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1. Violent revolution doesn't suit me.</div><div>2. The gold standard, scarcity based, monetary standard looks too much like a win-lose game to me.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Jacque Fresco's rehash of technocracy (the Zeitgeist movie, Venus Project, etc.)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1gZxmIDKw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1gZxmIDKw</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>caught my attention for a while. But I wouldn't want to live under the dictatorship of the computer program </div><div>without a practical means for opting out. In a radically free economy we would have the freedom to </div><div>plan the economy and regulate it, but only by choice, not force.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I guess it matters little to me whether we have an unregulated or planned economy as long as</div><div>the threat of violence gets left out of the equation. I can either lead the band, </div><div>take direction as a side man or go solo -- as long as no one physically forces me. </div>The inflexibility of our present economy came entirely from the corrosion of coercion. <div>-- Thomas</div></body></html>