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On 7/14/15 2:46 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote:
Of course we will (eliminate the stock market)! Why the fuck would you want a stock market under socialism?
What this reveals is the frustration of so many veterans on the left that the Greeks did not live up to their expectations. I thought this summed it up nicely:
It is revealing of the political landscape in Europe - indeed, the world - that everyone's dreams of socialism seemed to rest on the shoulders of the young Prime Minister of a small country. There seemed to be a fervent, irrational, almost evangelical belief that a tiny country, drowning in debt, gasping for liquidity, would somehow (and that somehow is never specified) defeat global capitalism, armed only with sticks and rocks.
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