Your necks will bleed like a cows when you get your Socialism

[Dawg]

Rebekah Koffler: Socialism in America – a warning to my adopted homeland about the evils of this system (msn.com)

Keep eating through the barbed wire

 

[EatTheRich]

She is ignoring that 1) until the Stalinist mismanagement took its toll, the Soviet Union produced wealth at a much faster rate than capitalist Russia or the U.S.; 2) the ability of the state bureaucracy to assume an antagonistic role vis-a-vis the masses was premised on the persistence of capitalism and the immaturity of the socialist revolution … which is why the censorship and repression reached their zenith with Franco’s victories and were greatly relaxed following the defeat of Hitler and the Chinese revolution.

 

[God of War]

the Soviet Union produced wealth at a much faster rate than capitalist Russia or the U.S.;

Yeah, when you start at zero, then a net gain of a dozen eggs is so large of a percentage of communist economic gain it shatters all records and the third world starts moving in. ha ha

 

[Dawg]

Yeah, when you start at zero, then a net gain of a dozen eggs is so large of a percentage of communist economic gain it shatters all records and the third world starts moving in. ha ha

but you can only keep 4 eggs

 

[God of War]

but you can only keep 4 eggs

Those other 8 are supposedly for all those 3rd worlders flocking into the Soviet,... wink, wink.... (but really for the Soviet elite... you know the new elite that replaced the old elite).

ha ha

 

[EatTheRich]

Yeah, when you start at zero, then a net gain of a dozen eggs is so large of a percentage of communist economic gain it shatters all records and the third world starts moving in. ha ha

I’d say going from gaslight to pioneering space travel in 2 generations is pretty impressive.

 

[God of War]

I’d say going from gaslight to pioneering space travel in 2 generations is pretty impressive.

The Soviets or the Chinese?

 

[God of War]

I’d say going from gaslightING to pioneering space travel in 2 generations is pretty impressive.

I thought about it and thought I'd fix it for you up above.

ha ha snicker

 

[EatTheRich]

The Soviets or the Chinese?

It was the Soviets who pioneered space travel.

 

[God of War]

It was the Soviets who pioneered space travel.

Pioneered certainly is the way to put it.