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And the Apollo program was hardly a poster-child for capitalism: federal government-run program, very centralized and partly militarized, very wasteful and expensive, at a time when marginal rates of taxation where above 70%.

Let's be honest: massive technological pushes that do not deal with production efficiency have nothing to do with capitalism or even democracy.

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in addition all this was motivated by the stiff rivalry with the centralized and militarized soviet union,