I am just discovering Bailieu, and already like it almost as much as UNSW library (UNSW library may always be 1st). I am sort of not on speaking terms with the computers, however. (They won't let me log in).
I do love the books, though, and am looking forward to exploring the fiction section.
A little review please, one day. I suspect there's something fundamentally wrong with Communism, but humans' ability to stuff any system up tends to make analysis of such grand experiments difficult. Why has China done better than India of late, for instance? I suspect it's because China's system is much more planned than India's.
I'm currently reading this, which is an interesting analysis of our rich, Western type of society.
One could write a book on why it all went wrong. One could write many books! Aleksander Solzhenitsyn did, for example, and he writes a lot about the futile madness of the Soviet state. As for the book I am reading now - the next book in the series is called 'Prophet Disarmed' and is in part about how the system he helped create toppled Trotsky over. I am so curious about Trotsky, I am not sure why. I am reading this book to discover it.
I assume that China is doing so well because...well, I don't know, they keep things well-hidden! I assume it's their uncompromising approach to production and foreign trade. I think they sacrifice their own people for it and that worries me. Yet more fodder for my insomnia, I suppose. *sigh*
I've a feeling any form of socialist past in a country is a good thing, it being a good memory to have to compare with what's good in the individualist approach to running a country. For instance, whatever you think about China's one-child policy, it does show they're thinking long-term about the future. Whereas neither democracy nor the free market are really about the long-term future. It's just assumed they will somehow produce a better result than the alternatives, yet they're both based on short-term thinking. It's an evolutionary approach, despite us knowing of all the dead ends evolution has produced.
Well, I am not knowledgeable enough to counter or agree with your arguments, but I am going to think about them. The economy is not usually something I ponder! It's usually all about the history.
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I don't mind getting lost in libraries :)
I am just discovering Bailieu, and already like it almost as much as UNSW library (UNSW library may always be 1st). I am sort of not on speaking terms with the computers, however. (They won't let me log in).
I do love the books, though, and am looking forward to exploring the fiction section.
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I'm currently reading this, which is an interesting analysis of our rich, Western type of society.
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One could write a book on why it all went wrong. One could write many books! Aleksander Solzhenitsyn did, for example, and he writes a lot about the futile madness of the Soviet state. As for the book I am reading now - the next book in the series is called 'Prophet Disarmed' and is in part about how the system he helped create toppled Trotsky over. I am so curious about Trotsky, I am not sure why. I am reading this book to discover it.
I assume that China is doing so well because...well, I don't know, they keep things well-hidden! I assume it's their uncompromising approach to production and foreign trade. I think they sacrifice their own people for it and that worries me. Yet more fodder for my insomnia, I suppose. *sigh*
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Perhaps, yes.
Well, I am not knowledgeable enough to counter or agree with your arguments, but I am going to think about them. The economy is not usually something I ponder! It's usually all about the history.
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