it requires an external revenue source to be viable or else you just ruin your economy with ever spiraling taxation to maintain the expanding welfare state. the success stories have natural resource economies (Norway) or massive export surpluses (Germany).
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That makes it a lot easier but I think you could do it with the right population for quite some time. There is a lot of ruin in a country.
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Though that reminds me of Dr. Richebacher's observation that people who said communism couldn't accomplish things were wrong. "Communism did the impossible. It produced Germans who did not want to work."
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dayum, clearly communism never recovered from that one
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Communism and capitalism are, outside of formal structures, pretty much inherent conflicting principles in all human societies. 1/2
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Without getting into her overall readability, Anne Rice turned a very memorable phrase when she had the Queen of the Dammed say, "There were men in my father's court in Ur who knew the hungry should be fed." 2/2
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oh thanks for supporting my thesis that communism is an intrinsically reactionary paradigm attempting to return to pre-industrial collectivist social organization practices, Anne
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If you haven't read the book, she says it to Lestat when he tries to talk her out of taking over the world. She's mad because so many people are still hungry and poor. He pleads that industrial democracy will eventually make the world rich enough to take care of everyone.
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Lestat the neo-liberal
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He totally is, really.
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so i guess if Lestat is the neoliberal and Akasha is the fire and blood revcom then Louis must be the emo anime progressive and Claudia the helicopter libertarian
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That's... uncanny.
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