I am rapidly approaching that point myself, although I think I'd prefer it if we just went straight to the Fight Club scenario, I'd probably die quickly but socialism seems really soul-suckingly depressing in large doses.
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Replying to @legalinspire @eigenrobot
yeah, i don't know how people manage to not even be sympathetic to
#BTFSTTG sentiment even if they shy away from fully embracing it socialist measures are fine as long as they don't require mind control or planned economies, so, y'know, like a microdose of socialism1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
Democratic socialism a la the Nordic countries is workable under the right conditions and may even produce a reasonably tolerable society. It is incredibly vulnerable to disruption and isn't workable outside of some fairly tight parameters.
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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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Replying to @legalinspire @danlistensto and
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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It blows my mind that anyone presents communism/Marxism as something besides reactionary. It was and is literally a reaction against the excesses of capitalism. The only thing worse than reactionary politics is utopian idealism. Communism is also that.
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