Durant wrote:
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> > And in which of the world's 200 countries has socialism yielded (1)
> > democracy and/or (2) prosperity?
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> >
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> None of them had a chance yet to establish socialism
> in a reasonable literate place to start with with reasonable
> economic base. The inadequate initial conditions caused
> the lack of democracy which made success more or less impossible.
>
> Which doesn't mean that with the right conditions it wouldn't work.
> Capitalism couldn't exist for a good few thousand years,
> until the new geographical discoveries, new technologies etc.
And the military and police working to *support* it rather
than to *crush* it!!!
The policy of the United States, et al.
has been to prevent socialism from arising wherever possible,
and, when it did arise anyway, to get rid of it, starting with the
Bolshevik Revolution, and continuuing to this day. I am sure
the bibliographical resources to document this are immense,
but D.F. Fleming's _The Cold War and Its Origins_ (Doubleday, 1961)
remains, IMO, a classic, written by a scholar who in no way can
be accused of being a "communist" or some other devil.
> gave for it the right start up.
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