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Socialists have to tolerate people who won't vote for capitalists

Socialists have to tolerate people who won't vote for capitalists

Regard with suspicion anyone who can't.

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Carl Beijer
Oct 27, 2020
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The moral and strategic calculus is much more complicated and ambiguous than most people are willing to admit. For one thing you are making predictions, not just about immediate outcomes, but about very long term consequences over the span of decades. Even very educated and intelligent people who spend their careers trying to do this are generally prett…

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