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Originally Posted by kerowo
...Not trying to AC-jack...
Thank you !!!1!
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... just trying to mock... beacon of righteousness...
Nobody is discussing 'righteousness' ITT. If they were, I'd mock them too... cause I don't even know how 'righteousness' is relevant.
What was being discussed was a characterized as a "remarkable experiment". Also note: you aren't mocking the content of this experiment. You're mocking the fact that people are even trying it to begin with. Which, once again... to do it correct would require examining what their other alternatives are.
Either way, I don't think mocking can be justified without examining the particulars on the ground in Syria.
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... a 3 year old war torn region... Perhaps we should see how it plays out before using it as a working example of anything.
This is of course, ass-backwards results oriented thinking. Did we need to wait until the fall of the Berlin Wall, to see if Euro-Communism was 'working'? Is Chinese-Communism better than Western-Capitalism because of all that shiz in Walmart? Was Euro-Fascism better than what the peeps had going in Spain 1936-1939. Would a slavery based society be 'better' if the CSA had won the Civil War? Is it better right now that, world wide, woman are oppressed... because basically right now woman are oppressed?
Besides that, you really need a basic understanding of how these kinda revolutions have worked out in history. War torn regions are the norm... starting with the Paris Commune of 1871. There French government withdrew their army to surrender the city, with the understanding the Prussian Army would then occupy the city. In the meantime the people of Paris raised up against them both.
The same situation prevailed in the Ukraine, and Manchuria during the 1920s, and Spain, as we have been discussing, in the 1930s. In all cases the large scale autonomous communities were between warring factions, fighting a war of survival themselves. In all these cases, after a few short years, they were militarily defeated.