raghu wrote:
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. **
I would appreciate any references you have to people who hold this view.
The world ** who is "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.
When I was a graduate student in economics at what is now the University
of Stockholm in 1957-58, there was more private ownership in Sweden than
in the United States. And, I'm sure my Canadian cousin (Stratford,
Ontario) will be pleased to learn that Canada is a "mix of socialism and
communism" -- at least in terms of the human development index.
Larry Shute
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