Re: Re: Reparations and capitalist progress.

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:

> Well, human progress is occurring. It is occurring while we have a
> capitalist economic system.

You can see it happening in Cuba also.  How much "progress" occurs
because of science?  Do we attribute science to capitalism or can we
consider the scientific process to be "non-capitalist?"  Or is that just
silly?


> And no one today thinks the...
> non-capitalist economic systems we saw during the twentieth century
> were faster roads for human progress.
>
> If you want to say that progress is due to non-capitalist elements
> within our current system because by definition capitalism can't be
> progressive, I have to admit that such a position is logically
> air-tight, if silly...
>
> Brad Delong

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