From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 12:48:44 MST
from the financial times
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&
c=StoryFT&cid=1045511199079&p=1012571727088
<<The communist experiment now appears unique in human history. It is
difficult to think of another episode in which the contrast between theory
and practice was so extreme or in which the dreams of social reformers turned
so quickly into nightmares. Was this inevitable? Was there an inherent design
flaw? If one looks forward 500 years, might the dreams of communists still be
realisable?
Nobody can say how societies will be organised in 2503. But I doubt the
exotica of modern capitalism - frenetic trading on stock markets, macho chief
executives, shopping mall consumerism, asset price bubbles - will survive in
their present form. In another half millennium, these social phenomena - and
the enormous economic inequalities they help underwrite - will seem as
archaic as the master-serf relationships of feudalism. School children in the
25th century will titter at our market follies.
Marx, in other words, was partially correct....>
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