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applegrove

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7. I may have been a little quick of the mark. This quote got me:

Reply to El_Johns (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 3, 2014, 11:32 PM

Jan 2014

"they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away...". I read it out of context. I'm sorry.

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Is it scarcity that the libertarianists/right wingers are trying to preserve with their [View all] applegrove Jan 2014 OP

Yes. El_Johns Jan 2014 #1

Well I'm not against capitalism. I think that has made man on the whole wealthier. I'm just applegrove Jan 2014 #2

I don't understand how you jumped from the orwell quote to being "against capitalism". El_Johns Jan 2014 #3

Oh Paul Ryan is wanting vouchers instead of medicare as it is. That is deciding who lives or dies applegrove Jan 2014 #5

Did you read my post? It's just an Orwell quote about scarcity & how it serves the 1%. El_Johns Jan 2014 #6

I may have been a little quick of the mark. This quote got me: applegrove Jan 2014 #7

Does the privileged minority have a function? Is capitalism = to "rule by a privileged minority"? El_Johns Jan 2014 #8

Yes to all of the above. freshwest Jan 2014 #4