Thanks for the show. Appreciate your contribution to greater understanding.
Doesn't the construction an 4300 mile long "Iron Curtain", enforced with machine guns and mine fields, watchtowers, etc., to keep people from leaving (escaping) provide some evidence of the acceptance of the economic systems contrasting the "Soviet" (one party rule, centrally planned and administered) economic system and the 'capitalist' republics?
I agree the 'meritocracy' at the top of the economic strata is present but more class than race based. Meaning race doesn't keep you out. But you can move up the economic ladder based on 'merit'. Intelligence, your SAT score, isn't a limiting factor.
I'm not sure I understand the argument of not understanding "human nature" coming from a historian. History is rife with the results generated by the same.
Glen,
Thanks for the show. Appreciate your contribution to greater understanding.
Doesn't the construction an 4300 mile long "Iron Curtain", enforced with machine guns and mine fields, watchtowers, etc., to keep people from leaving (escaping) provide some evidence of the acceptance of the economic systems contrasting the "Soviet" (one party rule, centrally planned and administered) economic system and the 'capitalist' republics?
I agree the 'meritocracy' at the top of the economic strata is present but more class than race based. Meaning race doesn't keep you out. But you can move up the economic ladder based on 'merit'. Intelligence, your SAT score, isn't a limiting factor.
I'm not sure I understand the argument of not understanding "human nature" coming from a historian. History is rife with the results generated by the same.