• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Russia’s industrial revolution did not happen in a bubble. They did not invent the technology that allowed the industrial revolution, they took advantage of others inventions to take a very inefficient rout to the revolution. They have enormous resources and a vast population… yet it was much smaller capitalist nations that advanced much faster.

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      13 hours ago

      Capitalism’s industrial revolution did not happen in a bubble. It did not invent science that allowed the industrial revolution, it took advantage of existing discoveries to take a very dehumanizing route to wrong destination.

      Also USSR was at least 15 nations.

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        11 hours ago

        Yes capitalism did not make all scientific discoveries but it did use them to make more discoveries at a vastly faster rate.

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          8 hours ago

          If you ignore fact that almost all fundamental research was done or paid by goverment. Where is private CERN? Private ISS? Heck, where computers would be if not for brittish, american and soviet state research programs? Even companies like Intel were created by goverment funding.