Stereotypical MIT Discussion

[sweetmintmojo]

At 2:11 in the morning, after crawling in from the cold after a fire alarm evacuation, we somehow ended up modeling Marxism as a damped harmonic oscillator that goes through one period of oscillation before going to equilibrium (Communist ideology on y-axis, time on x-axis). Communism in practice, though, only goes oscillates through pi/2 before

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[losangelino]

interesting paper here:

http://survivingpeakoil.com/preview.php?id=soviet_lessons

and I have no idea what you're talking about :-)

Simple Harmonic Politics

[shirley_1989]

From the above statement, I am assuming that equilibrium is in fact that the magnitude of communism has come to rest and is no longer oscillating. However, using your theory that Communism only oscillates through pi/2, one could say communism follows a parabolic motion. Or you could use the following transformation:
- Communism = Capitalism.

Though if the graph starts at 0 like a sin graph, then arguably the capitalists have it slightly better since they have an uninterrupted period (or that should be half period) of negative d(communism)/dt.

I really should be doing my physics assignment, it's just that this is what I'm covering at the minute.