I would like to point out that the increased rate of change that would supposedly be achieved under socialism/communism was in fact a major motivation of the Bolsheviks. Hasn't anybody ever read any of that early Societ science fiction about how under Communism everybody will have a flying car and live for hundreds of years? http://www.sovlit.com/space.html
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The point is that while it's undeniable the push, push,
> push of change
> we experience under capitalism is something we'd be
> better off
> without, the problem with this speedup is not it's
> velocity, but
> rather, that it's in service to profit enhancement and
> not other,
> larger issues.
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> I have similar arguments with back-to-simplicity ecologists
> who fail
> to understand that the way technology is deployed under
> capitalism is
> not the only available method. They mistake the machine
> (broadly
> defined) for the abuse; remaining blind to the hand at the
> controls.
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> .d.
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