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Originally posted by Stanley
I cannot argue with the fact that the Russians had achieved scientifically. In fact they were ahead in the 50s and early 60s.
The words of Lennon and Serrat make sense, but I worry about motivation---------- I still do. After all America surpassed the USSR in the space race with good old capitalism. Don't despair----- I fully recognize the cruelty of capitalism. I see how it can eat and spit up those who stay behind.
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Well, indeed, it is happening to the capitalists now. The latest is the 5 year sentence that the accountant for the World Com, or someother multinational corp., got in federal prison. The U.S. is progressing in social responsibility, all right, because 10 to 15 years ago that accountant with his creative bookkeeping would have only received a slap on the wrist as a white collar criminal, and would have had to pay a small fine, which his company probably would have footed for him. This latest is exactly what the strong, centralized gov't of China does to squeeze tort feasers using corrupt capitalist methods. In the old Soviet Union, however, they were harsher and placed such white collar criminals on trial, got them to publically confess their crimes in a court of law, and then were executed. But the concrete conditions of the old Soviet Union were entirely different in that they were fighting not only the old revanchanists of capitalism, but also struggling in the great war agains the fascism of Adolf Hitler, Tojo of the Empire of Japan, Mussolini and his black shirts in Italy, and the Caudillo Franco with his falangistas in Spain. Today, there is no need for such severe measures as the concrete conditions are set in a new world order of globalization. And the world is mostly either communist and/or socialist as I pointed out in my penultimate post to you.