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ashling

(25,771 posts) Thu Feb 20, 2014, 05:50 AM Feb 2014

Capitalism won

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Capitalism won (Original Post) ashling Feb 2014 OP

meh. it's mere sloganeering. our task isn't to come up with cute epigrams summarizing struggle4progress Feb 2014 #1

When you can make that sound as sexy as this looks you will have a winner. jtuck004 Feb 2014 #2

Adorable internet pandas: the real reason we haven't had a revolution yet struggle4progress Feb 2014 #3

I can't believe you posted that "sexy" photo on a political website!!! Quantess Feb 2014 #5

Sorry Fran, but the US did not win the cold war. The Soviets just lost first. Scuba Feb 2014 #4

Actually Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy destroyed the USSR. Rex Feb 2014 #6

That implies the war is over. jeff47 Feb 2014 #7

struggle4progress

(118,214 posts)

1. meh. it's mere sloganeering. our task isn't to come up with cute epigrams summarizing

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 05:56 AM

Feb 2014

our discouraged feelings but to come up with provisional descriptions of concrete reality that give us enough understanding to move the world in the direction we want the world to move

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

2. When you can make that sound as sexy as this looks you will have a winner.

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Thu Feb 20, 2014, 06:14 AM

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struggle4progress

(118,214 posts)

3. Adorable internet pandas: the real reason we haven't had a revolution yet

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 06:16 AM

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Quantess

(27,630 posts)

5. I can't believe you posted that "sexy" photo on a political website!!!

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 10:11 AM

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Now I'm totally offended.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. Sorry Fran, but the US did not win the cold war. The Soviets just lost first.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 08:18 AM

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Rex

(65,616 posts)

6. Actually Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy destroyed the USSR.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 10:14 AM

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And in this country plutocracy ate capitalism for breakfast and asked for seconds.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

7. That implies the war is over.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 12:08 PM

Feb 2014

It is far from over. Because it is never over. Society swings towards plutocracy and away from plutocracy. We're at the end of a "towards" swing. An "away" swing will be coming. It will be followed by another "towards".

The thing is, the "towards" end keeps not getting as far. Rockefeller had way more power than the billionaires today.

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