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"US" lib leaders are literally boomers who were Cold War communists

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trip mustard messiness
  11/18/17
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Flushed drunken hominid
  11/18/17
they didn't "vanish" when USSR collapsed-- they la...
trip mustard messiness
  11/18/17
Why did people stop believing in socialism? Part of the answ...
Flushed drunken hominid
  11/18/17
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trip mustard messiness
  11/19/17
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trip mustard messiness
  11/26/17


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Date: November 18th, 2017 1:33 AM
Author: trip mustard messiness



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Date: November 18th, 2017 1:35 AM
Author: Flushed drunken hominid



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Date: November 18th, 2017 1:39 AM
Author: trip mustard messiness

they didn't "vanish" when USSR collapsed-- they laid low for awhile & amassed boomer $$$ and now "fighting the good fight"

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Date: November 18th, 2017 1:40 AM
Author: Flushed drunken hominid

Why did people stop believing in socialism? Part of the answer is simply the passage of time: you can't expect revolutionary fervor to last for 70 years. But perhaps also the unexpected resurgence of capitalism played a role. By the 1980s Russia's elite was all too aware that the country, instead of overtaking the capitalist nations, was slipping behind - that Russia was failing to take advantage of new technology, that if anyone was challenging the West it was the rising nations of Asia. Communism lost any claim to the mandate of history well before it actually fell apart, and perhaps that is why it fell apart.

In the end, then, capitalism triumphed because it is a system that is robust to cynicism, that assumes that each man is out for himself. For much of the past century and a half men have dreamed of something better, of an economy that drew on man's better nature. But dreams, it turns out, can't keep a system going over the long term; selfishness can.

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/Russia.htm

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Date: November 19th, 2017 12:07 PM
Author: trip mustard messiness



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Date: November 26th, 2017 4:59 PM
Author: trip mustard messiness



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