- Capitalism and Alternatives -

*Paaaaarp*- nergle is sorry.

In Reply to: instinct genies posted by Gee on February 23, 1999 at 13:50:21:

: Well I like your posts, youre not a vicious statist and your quite enlightening regarding historical influences. My problem with trying to cork the self interest motive (material profit not being the sole motive power) is that you get a nasty seepage in the form of criminalised inefficient black markets, brewing revolution and a host of power brokers either side working at the expence of the individual.

Aha, now we finally get to the nub-
Socialist have never denied self interest:
1:the self interest of millions of workers lies in collective action, and in the abolition of capitalism, which is a system that is against the self interest of millions.
2:that self interest and social interest need not conflict, and in fact most of the time co-incide.
: I think we both agree that positive change can only occur via choice.

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