To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers. I started "Metropolis: History of the City, Humanity's greatest invention" by Ben Wilson.
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@Aevann can you pin pls. Also on an unrelated subject, tomorrow it's 7 de Setembro, Brazil's independence day, can the site theme go green and yellow for a day? !macacos 
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Soviet Union succeeded and so did China, you are stupid.
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The soviet union literally collapsed and would you really call china communist, or even a better place to live than the west?
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https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/298224/weekly-what-are-you-reading-thread/6982596#context
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All i see is you referencing some of histories' losers
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By your logic every empire that doesn't exist to this day are losers
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Technically, yeah. The romans had a much better run than the soviets, who lost to the empire that still runs the world
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America won't last forever either lmao. You are very naive if you think it will.
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I never claimed that. Of course it will end. Still performed much better than all of and absolutely destroyed a lot of the societies you throw your cards in with, tho
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I think USA and the USSR both won, they both changed the paradigm at their respective times (1776, 1917). They will both haunt the world and be remembered forever.
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Yes
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America won't last forever
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Doesn't need to, just needs to last till I'm gone B)
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He's also painfully unfunny.
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Good to know im still living rent free in your head
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It's a state sponsored living space
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Where's the Soviet Union now?
China is ruled by the Communist Party, but its economic model is a weird version of NEP on steroids, time will tell about its success, regardless of that I don't want a global recession because of a Chinese failure. It actually resembles dirigisme much more than NEP nowadays.
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Our definitions of success are different, for you victory is is an eternal empire of slow decadence and fragmentation. For me its an ephemeral absolute empire that forever haunts history.
And Deng Xiaoping/ Xi Jiping thought is perfectably compatible with Marxism-Leninism
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Success is when you completely change the paradigm, the world will be haunted by the USSR for millenia from now.
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Yeah because they both lack internal consistency.
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