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Unread 06-07-2017, 06:04 AM
Emitt Evan Baker Emitt Evan Baker is offline
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Originally Posted by William A. Baurle View Post
Von Mises predicted that Marxism would be a total disaster, in 1922.
Bakunin, the socialist, predicted the same in 1848.

One of the strengths of the present form of capitalism is its ability to export the suffering in such a way that you can write post number 16 without feeling any sense of hypocrisy. It called the Pinochet Syndrome.

The incongruity of socialist ideas with the scale of the nation-state is similar to the incongruity of most dreams of decency and compassion with that same life-threatening scale. John's points in his last post are well taken but the real trauma unfolding is across lines of species. Big agriculture is the Rosetta stone for translating Capital's actual promise. Go behind the closed doors and look it in the eye.
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