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To: jack gillis
They industrialized in the Soviet Union by virtue of confiscation and forced labor. Capitalism was not involved.

China has industrialized via foreign capital, and again, with the use of forced, often slave, labor. It is not a free market by any means. You have a skewed view of history and economics.

25 posted on 09/04/2011 8:25:31 PM PDT by Defiant (Calling all citizens from all over the world, this is Captain America calling.)
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To: Defiant

Precisely my point.

After Capital created (or allowed the creation of, if you object to the personification) the modes and methods of industrialization, other systems used those modes and methods.

Capital is the radical cause.

To use another example, Hitler created Volkswagen through state power. Do you think he would have done so, or could have done so, without the modes and methods of his Capitalistic pal, the aforementioned Henry Ford?


27 posted on 09/04/2011 8:57:57 PM PDT by jack gillis
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