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Old 09-21-2019, 03:55 PM   #19121 (permalink)
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If I had taken a leaf out of Bats or OH's book growing up I'd be dead as doornail in a ditch somewhere.
Bro, I've got a tent. I'm guessing OH has a tent. We can just get drunk and sleep in the ditch. It's not too late for you.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 09-21-2019, 04:13 PM   #19122 (permalink)
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No.... But I'm not trying to argue for a capitalist
utopia.

And it's more than just not utopian. It's not useful in any way to pontificate on why and how the soviet union grew so fast while intentionally ignoring the victims it robbed to do so.
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Old 09-21-2019, 04:16 PM   #19123 (permalink)
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No.... But I'm not trying to argue for a capitalist
utopia.

And it's more than just not utopian. It's not useful in any way to pontificate on why and how the soviet union grew so fast while intentionally ignoring the victims it robbed to do so.
Don't you do the same thing when you try to get people to admit that capitalism has done good things?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 09-21-2019, 04:26 PM   #19124 (permalink)
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No cause globally it has done certain things to increase the standard of living. The soviet model of rapid industrialization did nothing fundamentally different other than direct all their productive capacity towards the aims of the state. It was a sound strategy, militarily. Economically less so. Millions had to die in sacrifice.

Where as capitalism had down sides, and I believe is unsustainable long term, but the industrial model is driving down the price of goods so that a higher general quality of life is possible on a worldwide scale.

It goes hand and hands with technological innovation though so it's not like capitalism as such is soley responsible for the quality of life. It's mainly responsible for stream lining the process of manufacturing and assembly.

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Old 09-21-2019, 04:29 PM   #19125 (permalink)
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or rather, the simple fact that it's not the "free market" that creates growth
no, it's stealing food from peasants and then selling that food on the global market to buy industrial machinery.
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Old 09-21-2019, 04:33 PM   #19126 (permalink)
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No cause globally it has some certain things to increase the standard of living. The soviet model of rapid industrialization did nothing fundamentally different other than direct all their productive capacity towards the aims of the state. It was around strategy, militarily. Economically less so. Millions had to die in sacrifice.

Where as capitalism had down sides and I believe is unsustainable long term, but the industrial model is driving down the price of goods so that a higher general quality of life is possible on a worldwide scale. It goes hand and hands with technological innovation though so it's not like capitalism as such is soley responsible for the quality of life. It's mainly responsible for stream lining the process of manufacturing and assembly.
But aren't you also "inviting" us to not think about Gilded Age worker exploitation, kids mining cobalt in the Congo for our cellphones, and just imperialism in general?
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Inviting you? I don't understand your question.
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Old 09-21-2019, 04:40 PM   #19129 (permalink)
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Inviting you? I don't understand your question.
You accused elph of using that video you two are arguing about as a sneaky way of promoting the Soviet Union because it only talks about the ways in which the Soviet economy worked. I'm accusing you of hypocrisy because you do a similar thing with capitalism.
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I'm not really in this argument in general tbh. I'm just bored and pickin' at you.
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