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Sat Aug-15-09 01:51 PM
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| National Health Care is not Socialist, its Egalitarian |
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We might at least use the right word. No one is talking about a socialist system, what is being discussed is egalitarian; equally available to all men, women, and children.
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Sat Aug-15-09 02:00 PM
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| 1. K&R. Healthcare should be a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, not a commodity! |
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Sat Aug-15-09 02:03 PM
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| 2. And democracy is egalitarian - or should be |
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Sat Aug-15-09 02:43 PM
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| 4. Socialism IS egalitarianism. |
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A socialist system guarantees egalitarian treatment. If there ain't egalitarian treatment, then it ain't a socialist system (see USSR post Lenin, see China, see Cuba) The whole idea of a classless society? That's a society based on egalitarianism. One "group" or "class" dominating another=unequal.
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Sat Aug-15-09 02:47 PM
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| 5. I take Socialism to be a term of Economics |
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And a system can be egalitarian independent of the overriding economic system, so we could have egalitarian healt care within a capitalistic society.
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Sat Aug-15-09 04:41 PM
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| 6. Many of those HC protesters couldn't define "socialism." they wouldn't have a clue. |
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