[P1] Blatantly false statements on list

[Eric B. Richardson]

I thought that Mr. Crawford's statement belonged under this heading. 
It makes more sense that way:

At 8:10 AM -0800 12/21/02, Robert Crawford wrote:
>
>I am not going to quote all of Karl Marx "On Wage and Kapatol" but I 
>will point out that there is not fair and equal negotiating between 
>someone who has surplus and someone who has desperate need.  There 
>neither can, nor will, there ever be.
>
>Please no knee jerk reactions to Karl Marx, the man was a genius. 
>What he failed to do, and so has everyone else, was to develop a 
>equitable socialist DEMAND based economy.  He instead settled on a 
>SUPPLY based economy, which in all models leads to stagnation.
>


There is no such thing as any controlled economy that can be anything 
but stagnant for the vast majority of the people.