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To: WayneLusvardi
From the Communist Manifesto:

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.

16 posted on 04/27/2009 5:55:00 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Capitalism is no more a Ponzi scheme than, say, the agricultural or agrarian economy that preceded the Industrial-Revolution and Capitalism. The farmer needed to raise enough children to support him and his wife into old age. What is apparently problematic is modernity which liberates the individual from tribe, caste, clan and even from sex roles and marriage; but at the steep price of eventually being non-sustainable. Russia has more of a population regeneration deficit after decades of Communism. Western European nations also have population regeneration deficits after decades of Socialism, although less so than Russia. The United States population is at least regenerating itself even if immigration gives it a boost. What apparently attracts intact Hispanic and Asian families to emigrate to the U.S. is capitalism. The reason China and India are growing economically is the rise of what Marxists would call the bourgeoise family.

Read Chapter 7 “Family” in The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family and Civility by Angelo Codevilla (revised edition 2009).


18 posted on 04/27/2009 7:02:44 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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