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Dave Johnson's avatar

This piece on Liberalism/Conservatism is one of the best things I have read. Ever. Anywhere.

Some thoughts I've been having. One place we are stuck is using 19th-century labels that describe 19th-century solutions to 19th-century problems. We're stuck because the reaction to Marx triggered propaganda waves from both sides of that argument that force us to fight that battle perpetually. Russia's communists were the kind of unimaginative people who took a book as gospel. Marx's analysis was good but it was one guy and his predictions But why not, it kept them in power.

At the same time America's capitalists fought back with lies etc and became glued to those same lies ever since. But why not, it kept them in power.

Everyone is stuck there. So there hasn't been much of a reexamination of these economic ideas since.

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Mark Gisleson's avatar

Truth: I read the subhead and then hit LIKE. I'll go back and read the new post now but yeah, srsly great subhed!

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