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There are many other things worth to be mentioned. E.g. nature preserving approach of early Soviet days http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/ussr_ecolog
by kushti 11y ago
There are many other things worth to be mentioned. E.g. nature preserving approach of early Soviet days http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/ussr_ecology.htm http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/ussr_ecology.ht..., or no plastic post-consumer waste.
- theoh 11y agoWithout intending to liken the USSR to Nazi Germany, the Nazis also had very "green" policies. Why suggest that conservation on the early soviet model should be revisited when in fact you just want conservation, but for different reasons and from a different kind of state? What I've written doesn't sound very clear but the point I'm trying to make is that even a misguided state can get some things right. That doesn't mean those things can only be got right by that kind of state, or that we should call for those things to be administered by such a state in perpetuity...
- calibraxis 11y agoNo one said that. Just that the Soviets had useful cultural aspects worth adopting. "We are used to thinking of the Politburo as a group of unimaginative gray bureaucrats, but they were bureaucrats who dared to dream astounding dreams." (http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declinin...) Both the US and former Soviet Union are culturally backwards in many ways, but each has aspects worth learning from. One can easily think of societies improved beyond both "theirs & ours," which also unleash imagination.