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A comment by the dissident frogman on What is Democracy? ♠ Qu'est ce que la Démocratie ?

Well of course. I might have known that we were guilty, corrupted and only interested in profits. And therefore responsible for all the sufferings in the world. How vile of us. By the way, I don't know where you found that "free trade" means "profits for the few at the expense of the many". Free trade means trading between somebody who has something to sell and somebody who wants to buy it, free from the intervention, arbitrary regulation, spoliation (read "taxes") of a third party that's not relevant in the exchange (usually states, but not only. There are so many control freaks around, they just can't get ALL elected). That's all there is to it. And since you're amused, you should be delighted to learn that "profits for the few at the expense of the many" is exactly the way it works in Socialist regimes. And it's not new. According to Trotsky in 1939, "the 11 or 12% ruling class of the Soviet population receive 50% of the national revenue while in the United States, the corresponding 10% only receive 35%" Don't know about you, but I'll take the free trade path anytime.

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