Dan Broderson lists the problems:
Transdeism
New Islam
Asianism
centralization causing secessionism
possible revival of Keynesianism!
Broderson is particularly hostile to Keynesianism. I have just read an article that said that, in major economies, state spending still made up forty percent of GDP even after Keynesianism and that states intervened to bail out big firms under neoliberalism.
Earth has a Covenant, an echo of Robert Heinlein's Future History, and Broderson says that the best outcome of a breakdown:
"'...would be a kind of Caesar...'" (p. 51)
- an echo of Poul Anderson's Technic History.
Humanity can do better than Caesars - but it is our collective responsibility to demonstrate this in practice. Overthrow Putin and/or (fill in the blank) and don't replace him with just another one. It can be done.
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The problem with most economic ideologies is that they assume that you can separatre economic and political power.
You can't.
Every country has its own political culture. Russia's has consistently produced despots. This is unlikely to change.
Economics and politics can't be separated.
Paul: nope, they can't. That's an illusion.
Kaor, to Both!
Trouble uploading comments lately.
And that's true even of free enterprise economics, taking the form of reducing the powers held by the State.
Mr. Stirling, agree, what you said about Russia. I get so impatient with Utopian dreams of democracy existing in Russia if the necessary ideas, beliefs, institutions a successful democracy needs simply doesn't exist there!
At most I think the best Russia can hope for is a restoration of the monarchy with a constitution like that of 1906. A gov't believed to be legitimate and accepting some limits on its powers would be better than what Russia had since Lenin seized power. And I was surprised to find out a poll taken of Russians had 46% favoring such a restoration.
Ad astra! Sean
As the saying goes, once can be happenstance, twice can be coincidence, but the third time ti's enemy action/a pattern.
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