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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by never_a-pickle on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:24PM (#29826509)
Certain things the author got completely wrong (rise of racial politics, actual liberalism of thought), but his level-headed approach got him 75% of the way there.

Though culturally he was eerily correct re: State-as-family.

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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by gumby on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:29PM (#29826591)
> Though culturally he was eerily correct re: State-as-family

That's not particularly surprising as it was one of the key philosophies of the age: the Russian revolution was only a few years old (and didn't spring from nowhere) while some of the competing philosophies, like anarchism and bimetallism, had burned out.

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