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> Between 1917 and 1950 they grew at a staggering pace. From agricultural backwater to first space power. That isn't an economic failure in any way. > If we att
by kmicklas 10y ago
> Between 1917 and 1950 they grew at a staggering pace. From agricultural backwater to first space power. That isn't an economic failure in any way.
> If we attribute Stalin to a failure of communism surely we have to also attribute Hitler to a failure of capitalism?
I agree with everything you said but this seems ironically contradictory...
> I think economic systems are orthogonal to political systems.
Not entirely orthogonal. But yeah, HN seems to think communism is inherently authoritarian.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoMaybe that's because for many people, the belief that communism=authoritarianism was propaganda, spoon-fed at an early age and whipped up by the government at regular intervals to keep people afraid of the other and from questioning their present authority. Same goes for terrorism these days. "If you're not with us you're against us," was the phrase I believe Bush the junior liked to tell us.
- kmicklas 10y agoIf I had a nickel for every time a HN poster said "socialism inevitably leads to communism" I could personally buy out the bourgeoisie and institute 100 years of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.