On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean Andrews cites Jacob Weisberg below: > > If Leftists could somehow survive the Russian and Chinese experiments, I > think libertarians will somehow survive the real estate bubble crash of 2008.
That's a fair point. Being unproven is, of course, a big problem for socialists and especially communists. It is even more problematic for anyone who believes a socialist revolution has to be worldwide or not at all. The world can, perhaps, rightly be skeptical of the wisdom of any such large scale experiment. Of course to be completely fair, you'd also have to admit that capitalism is no less unproven than socialism. The era of capitalism has coincided with more starvation, misery, warfare and genocide worldwide than perhaps at any other time in human history. Which is probably why the most successful countries of today in terms of human development indices (e.g. Scandinavia, Canada) tend to be a mix of socialism and communism. Whether these societies are sustainable on their own without the externalities on the Third World and elsewhere is another interesting question. -raghu. -- Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
