[CS-FSLUG] PD: Re: Christians taking action...

[Nathan T.]

On 8/19/06, Jim Isbell, W5JAI <jim.isbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unions are socialistic in concept to begin with.  No offence, if that
> is what you want, but it didnt seem to work in the biggest such
> experiment so far.

If you ask me, this anti-socialism stuff is leftover prejudice from
the Cold war: the ideals are always tainted by it's most famous
followers, never mind that it's actually had it's benefits. Using some
famous example to say that socialism is anti-Christian or anti-Freedom
is no different from someone saying that capitalism is
anti-competitive and anti-freedom based on the actions of it's largest
members, eg: the telecommunications companies, Microsoft, Wal-Mart,
and the list goes on...

I'm not advocating socialism here, but I can tell there's a bias when
the only things I'm seeing is negative, such as the GPA story I've
seen used as an example here. Oddly enough no one has ever posted an
example story where socialism saved people from starving to death
thanks to something completely out of their control, and in
Saskatchewan during the dirty thirties that was exactly what happened.

Of course I've read 1984, and in history class we had debates over
this stuff, and the conclusion was always that no system is perfect.
But nonetheless when people in here start talking about socialism I
always get the feeling they only have half the picture and they turn
to to the usual "this person was an x and he was evil, therefore x is
evil" argument.

"Unions are socialistic in concept to begin with" just seems like it
goes without saying that socialism is by default a bad thing. I don't
disagree that unions seem like a waste these days, but during the
industrial revolution they made a big difference: there's a time and
place for everything.