MIM Notes 193 
September 1, 1999

England has 43rd "Mad Cow" death
by MC5

Anglo-Saxon individualist England -- which is only slightly less 
individualist than the United $tates -- has received its fitting 
punishment for anti-communism. "Mad Cow Disease" comes about, 
because of a lack of government regulation and concern about 
public health. In July, the death toll in England reached 43 
thanks to "Mad Cow Disease." To this day, those who study 
epidemics (epidemiologists) cannot guarantee that England will not 
have a full-blown epidemic of Mad Cow Disease that would kill 
thousands or millions of people. Just as AIDS has an "incubation 
period," so does this "Mad Cow Disease." The capitalists feel they 
have the right to take chances with our lives with such epidemics 
in order that they may live in an "unregulated" "free market." In 
contrast, we communists see that the people have an interest in 
science conducted and applied for the people's interests.

The Adam Smith defenders of 1999 called economic Liberals or 
supporters of "laissez-faire" should all move to a country where 
there is no government regulation or coordinated class struggle. 
They do not understand why life expectancies have lengthened -- 
class struggle. They do not realize that there was a time when 
buying meat was a very risky business for one's health in the 
major imperialist countries. They don't understand that people 
made profits as "snake oil dealers" and other medical quacks. They 
should take unregulated drugs and eat unregulated foods. In a few 
years, they would all be dead from their own stupidity and the 
world would march to socialism all the faster.

We communists and others in the class struggle are tired of doing 
all the work -- going to jail and sacrificing our time, money and 
blood -- just so that pro-laissez-faire fools may live. We are 
tired of hearing from these reactionary fools that the people are 
so inherently good that if you put them in a profit-run system 
they will do good. These conservatives known as economic Liberals 
underestimate the role of stupidity and greed encouraged by the 
profit-run system. 

Note: Financial Times 3 August 1999, p. 8.