For me the reason of the failure of the USSR was so accelerated for the same reasons why other democracies are corrupted and degenerated, but while the democracies dismiss and erodes progressively the pre-political grounds that guarantee personal freedom, Comunism directly tries to eliminate such pre-political grounds.
2015-01-03 19:12 GMT+01:00 <zibblequib...@gmail.com>: > > > On Friday, January 2, 2015 9:30:24 PM UTC, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> Indeed. Popper had a very naive conception of human nature. >> >> If "error correction" were the hallmark of democracy, then the keynessian >> economic measures used now to fight the crisis, that are so convenient for >> the ruling elite -because they increase the size of the leviatan state- >> would never have been used again after the crisis of the 70's. >> > > IMHO: The striking thing about the Soviet system was how quickly it > succumbed to corruption. It's hard to estimate because it happened so > quickly. There doesn't seem to be a 'honeymoon'. But then again, it wasn't > about socialism but brutal genocide. Whatever. > > The corruption factor is still legitimate even so. The West....was a > beautiful thing. It ran for....oh I don't know the answer to that one. But > while it ran...wow. Science, checks and balances, a new vision of a > holistic society. You are right that Christianity was front and centre of > that world. That world that is gone. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
