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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America, in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished.
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0:00.0 | Yeah, so he talks a little bit more about what the government's going to look like here. |
0:03.6 | Yet a wise struggle between interest groups and ideas is not only conceivable, it is inevitable. |
0:09.0 | One year, five year, ten year plans of business development, schemes for national education, |
0:13.6 | construction of a new basic line of transportation, the transformation of farms, |
0:17.8 | the program for improving the technological and cultural equipment of Latin America, a program for the capital in Panama, a program for stratosphere communications, |
0:27.6 | eugenics, all of these will arouse controversy, vigorous electoral struggle and passionate |
0:33.4 | debate in the newspapers and at public meetings. All right. So here we go. |
0:37.7 | There's going to be electoral struggle. |
0:40.2 | There's going to be elections. |
0:41.9 | It's up to the people of America, whether we pursue eugenics? |
0:46.0 | Yes. |
0:46.9 | Okay. |
0:47.4 | I don't know if he might have been a little bit on the fence about eugenics. |
0:51.2 | I mean, like a lot of people were at this point. |
0:54.1 | Yeah. |
0:56.5 | For Soviet America will not imitate the monopoly of the press by the heads of Soviet |
1:01.1 | Russia's bureaucracy. |
1:02.5 | While Soviet America would nationalize all printing plans, paper mills, and means of |
1:06.2 | distribution, this would be a purely negative measure. |
1:09.6 | It would simply mean that private capital will no longer be allowed to decide what publications should be established, whether they should be progressive or reactionary, wet or dry, meaning you drink or are you a prohibitionist. |
1:22.3 | Puritanical or pornographic. |
1:24.9 | We could print that porn in Soviet America? |
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