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> Incrementalism normalizes dystopia Radicalism creates dystopia in the first place (e.g., the USSR was far more dystopic).
by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> Incrementalism normalizes dystopia
Radicalism creates dystopia in the first place (e.g., the USSR was far more dystopic).
- anigbrowl 2y agoIt can certainly exacerbate it. I'm less sure about creation; Tsarist Russia was not a nice place for anyone but the aristocracy, and life was also highly precarious in China before Mao came along - the Taiping Rebellion is estimated to have killed as much as 10% of the population, while China's population grew close to 50% during Mao's tenure despite the death of tens of millions from starvation. I'm not communist, but it has arguably been a good fit for underdeveloped agrarian societies that feel a strategic need to industrialize rapidly without giving up political/industrial autonomy. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/public/communism_modernization.pdf https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/publ...