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eli_gottlieb on June 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: "We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next ...

>Sure, then it will become just another productive person/citizen.

Only in the sense that Stalin or Pinochet was a productive citizen. Powerful people can mobilize others to their own ends without those ends being at all good or moral for everyone who is not so mobilized.

BEEdwards on June 4, 2014 [–]

You can disagree with his methods, but saying Stalin wasn't productive is just plain wrong.

From agrarians to victors of ww2 in ~20 years is pretty impressive by any measure.

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