Originally Posted by jwb

No.... But I'm not trying to argue for a capitalist
utopia.

And it's more than just not utopian. It's not useful in any way to pontificate on why and how the soviet union grew so fast while intentionally ignoring the victims it robbed to do so.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.