Reply #94: Not, really, only in idealistic fantasyland

[dthigpen4]

Yesterday, I bought an organic, fair-trade, bag of coffee...at a big corporate grocery store. Do you know why they had it there. They were responding to the democratic demands of people like me who wanted it. We were spending our money at more expesive, small, health food stores. The corporate store heard our voice (money) and responded with amazing agility and sensitivity. Socialism (non-private ownership of production) does not allow for true democratic response. Centralized power drowns out individual voices in the money awash from corporate interests who don't have to listen to me anymore because they can focus their cash in one place.