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Author Topic:   Exploring (mostly Cultural) Marxism in today's Left
Pressie
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Message 212 of 381 (813504)
06-28-2017 7:35 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Faith
06-20-2017 7:53 AM


I'm not a politician or anything like that, but I've not seen such extreme poverty as in the US by people in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and those places. I've seen lots of extreme poverty in Russia, Poland, the US, etc.
So, maybe some middle ground in economic policies work more satisfactory for the majority of people? Somewhere between outright capitalism and outright communism?
Just my thoughts.

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Pressie
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From: Pretoria, SA
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Message 215 of 381 (813508)
06-28-2017 8:07 AM
Reply to: Message 214 by Faith
06-28-2017 7:52 AM


Faith writes:
Two points:
1) You are comparing small mostly homogeneous cultures with a big nation of many different parts. They never had the problems we have.
Actually, Germany is not small, neither homogenous. Before unification, the western part was democratic and prosperous under a social democratic system. The eastern part was quite poor under a communist system, but still the most affluent country in the eastern block.
Faith writes:
2) This thread is not about economic policies, it's about cultural influences. In fact I think I'm going to change the title to make that clear.
OK. Cultural. Not economic. Why didn't you do it from the beginning?

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