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by codr7 733 days ago
Given that it's just another -ism, brain farted by some random french aristocrat in the eighteenhundreds-something if I remember correctly, and like all other -isms designed to control the population and steal the profit. All of them?

The core ideas are awesome, but then the same could be said of Democracy; any idea force fed from the top is going to have the same kind of shit sandwich quality, the rainbow madness is just the latest example.

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Democracy and socialism aren't categories of a kind.
They are examples of ideas force fed from the top with the aim of controlling the population, which is sort of a category.

Applying mathematical reasoning to history isn't going to work very well, but knock yourself out.