Throughout history, the better-financed system has won out. I put it to you that socialism can be the better-financed system - not by being a system which ignores finance (as Marxists have in the past) but by being one which embraces and revolutionizes finance.
On 1/7/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
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> abolish war. Peaceful coexistence of different social
> systems, lets see who "wins" under a peace regime.
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> peaceful coexistence, capitalism - peaceful coexistence,
> imperialism - guess i'm missing something here, in any
> event, class war can't be abolished under capitalism/
> imperialism... mh
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> ^^^^^
> CB:
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> Do you mean the dilemma that the socialist states can't whither away until
> there are no longer any more capitalist states ; and until there are no
> capitalist states, all we can hope is that we can deter them from war by
> strong defenses in the socialist states; but then we have to waste resources
> on defense potentially undermining socialist prosperity and undermining
> democracy through defensive militarization of society beyond the military
> itself ?
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> The real order is peaceful coexistence; then final revolutions in the
> remaining capitalist countries, like the US ;and then abolish war.
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> But don't call us stagists, please.
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