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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostSuch as? Stability [apart from a few revolutions, and other uprisings] you’ve mentioned, but what else? Under the Tsars Russia was a feudal system, with perhaps some enlightened land owners, but mostly people were poor. The revolutions at the start of the 20th Century may have reduced some problems, but replaced them with others. “Communism”, which sounds good in theory has not turned out well.
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostYes, there is "Communism" and then there is communism. Capitalism sounds great in theory but is the ultimate evil in that it will spell the end of humans - unless we stop it.
Depends on your pov, I think.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostI’m not suggesting that Capitalism isn’t without faults. Would the end of humans be so bad?
Depends on your pov, I think.bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....How long will Ukraine have an inspirational leader....could end up going several different directions....20 years time will tell us....There will {obviously} be a great deal of Reconstruction needed....how that is handled and with what morals/ethics/ideologies/philosophies is a salient question to be yet asked....I hope Sustainability will be top of agenda beside the safety of this State (a large poor; in terms of GNP, State, at the moment sustained in a different way to fight above its weight....
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....How long will Ukraine have an inspirational leader....could end up going several different directions....20 years time will tell us....There will {obviously} be a great deal of Reconstruction needed....how that is handled and with what morals/ethics/ideologies/philosophies is a salient question to be yet asked....I hope Sustainability will be top of agenda beside the safety of this State (a large poor; in terms of GNP, State, at the moment sustained in a different way to fight above its weight....
If people live in Ukraine but feel more Russian than Ukrainian, why don't they just go and live in Russia? No-one more likely than them to know that Ukrainians actually feel Ukrainian, and it isn't the way of the free world to march into someone else's country and start bombing it. I know, I'm a poor simple-minded creature. But Cave canemIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI hope it will get continuing support from the 'west' (unlikely to get it from anywhere else).
If people live in Ukraine but feel more Russian than Ukrainian, why don't they just go and live in Russia? No-one more likely than them to know that Ukrainians actually feel Ukrainian, and it isn't the way of the free world to march into someone else's country and start bombing it. I know, I'm a poor simple-minded creature. But Cave canem
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostYou would never have said that to the Protestant descendants of Scottish settlers in the north of Ireland though!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostSustainability is one thing capitalism is definitely NOT about! Not was Communism with its capital C - based as it was on faulty scientific thinking that still did not in the main see things in holistic terms in the 1920s or for reasons of politics did not take account of the read-across implications.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostCommunism surely only has a capital C when it is a proper noun and as such would only be capitalised in the title of a book or the name of an organisation.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWouldn't I? I hope I live to see a united Ireland, and those who don't want to live there …
You could always try supporting the Anglo- Irish agreement like the overwhelming majority of those North and South of the border and is the best guarantee of lasting peace.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostNot exactly a comment likely to bring people onside politically . Even Sinn Fein think twice about saying that latter bit publicly because it’s a bit of a red rag to an Orange bull.
You could always try supporting the Anglo- Irish agreement like the overwhelming majority of those North and South of the border and is the best guarantee of lasting peace.
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