Communism-Capitalism 500yrs

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 12:48:44 MST

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    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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