But I am also sympathetic to the socialist (and non-socialist!) critiques of the free market as the best means to human happiness.
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Can you give me an example of a purely socialist country that didn't slip into poverty, oligarchy or dictatorship?
nope. I'm not saying that communism is practicable at present. I actually don't think it is.
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I think, like democracy at vast geographic scales, technological progress could make democratic socialism possible where it once wasn't.
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I'm just saying, give the socialists credit---according to socialist metrics, they are building socialism, even if they're not seizing MoP.
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Then what's the point? Why waste energy trying to make something happen when it won't, and would be terrible if it did?
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Shrug. Sometimes you shoot for the moon to land in the clouds. Also /I/ am not fighting for socialism. Just don't hate those who are.
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