Subject: More generally...
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Posted on: 2022-12-09 09:37:08 UTC

... ideas are not their applications. Marx led to the USSR, absolutely. But US-style democracy, exported to other countries, has led to swathes of dictatorships and military juntas across the centuries. Capitalism led to the Atlantic slave trade. The Christianity of the Gospels led to millennia of Popes, Kings, and Emperors massacring each other in ostensible service to God. Ideas are not their applications, because 99% of the time, they are misapplied in the service of whatever atrocity someone feels like justifying.

hS

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