>Since I believe that only societies that discover capitalism will be
>able to develop the requisite technology, I doubt that we will find many
>star-roving socialist/fascist collectives - the only ones we do find
>will be ones that stole the technology from the capitalist ones, just
>like here on earth.
GG, your email address is in the UK, so it is odd that you need reminding
that it was fascists who made the big advances in rocketry in the middle of
this century.
Also, the Nazis were capitalists (despite the name 'National Socialists').
They didn't steal technology from capitalist, they *were* capitalists -- and
they developed a lot of it themselves.
The collectivist aspect of the United States has a much better developed
space program than any private industry initiative.
Your future is optimistic, but not based on historical fact.
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