[ExI] socialism

[William Flynn Wallace]

Am I wrong?  I think the Scandanavian countries are democratic socialism
and Venezuela et alia are autocratic socialisms.  Further, that only in the
latter does the federal gov. run the economy.

bill w

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:02 AM SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it’s interesting that “eventually Denmark will crumble!” is a
> thing we are talking about.
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> Inherently, every nation, feudal, mercantile, capitalist, socialist,
> barter or what-have-you, will eventual crumble into distant memory.
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> Some countries have hidden this fact by maintaining their names and
> historical myths, but honestly they don’t have good continuity. England,
> anyone? Deposition of monarchs through rebellion, then constitutional
> monarchy, etc...
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> And it’s cute to think of historical examples as well. How long did Rome
> exist? I don’t think we can really call the Republic and the Empire the
> same “country” even if there was a form of continuity between them.
>
> SR Ballard
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> On Feb 25, 2019, at 9:38 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:04 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> > *Don’t worry John.  You and I will live long enough to see Denmark
>> crumble*
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> I think the signs of political instability are far clearer in the USA than
> in Denmark.
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> John K Clark
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>> for all the same reasons the other socialist countries will: if an
>> adequate safety net exists such that landing there is insufficiently scary,
>> people will jump into it until it fails.
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