Re: Distribution & Redistribution

From: Ron Allen (rallen2_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:40:37 -0500

Albert wrote:
> Redistribution is unnecessary when the initial
> distribution is fair.

Robert J. Kolker wrote:
> What is fair? That which YOU say is fair? Or
> shall we have the public, that herd of asses,
> vote on it?

Ron Allen wrote:
> Why do those who purport to be libertarians and
> individualists always have such a repulsive and
> reprehensible view of human beings as a species?

Ron Allen adds:
Neal Boortz, the radio libertarian, says that "the
masses are asses". But, apparently people who are
like Neal Boortz, who don't like either democracy
or socialism, believe they are somehow better than
the masses, better than the people.

In other words, Neal Boortz is an élitist, who
likes to believe that he's a libertarian. It is
possible for an élitist to believe that élitism is
quite compatible with libertarianism; but I do not
buy this nonsense, I do not believe this baloney.
As I see right-wing libertarians, they are nothing
more than traditional élitist liberals of the more
laissez-faire genre.

There is an élitist vision both of liberty and of
democracy.

royls@telus.net wrote:
> They are elitists. They believe that they are
> part of a virtuous minority, and that others
> constitute a vicious majority.

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"Capital pridefully savors the debasement of
labor."
-- Ron Allen

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