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hifiguy

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10. Lenin/Mao style communism

Reply to Throd (Reply #8)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 05:02 PM

Nov 2015

which Marx would not have recognized.

And capitalism has been at its game for 300-plus years. Leninism/Maoism rose and fell within 1915-1980. Capitalism's body count easily runs into nine figures by now.

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