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joshcryer

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13. Yeah, if you gotta have markets, social democracies are the best way to do it.

Reply to ChangoLoa (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 09:16 PM

Dec 2011

Note, this is coming from an extremely anti-monetarist POV, full on collectivist / communist, and it's a rather niche view, because most socialisms or communisms have markets and money.

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Yeah... ocpagu Dec 2011 #3

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They also don't like oil looters. ocpagu Dec 2011 #5

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? ocpagu Dec 2011 #7

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Irony apart, who is "us"? ChangoLoa Dec 2011 #9

I think its a simplistic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" foreign policy approach Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 #11

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Yeah, if you gotta have markets, social democracies are the best way to do it. joshcryer Dec 2011 #13

I wonder... ocpagu Dec 2011 #14

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