K: ummmm, listed is three winners of the Nobel prize for literature,
all of them Russians during the communist years,
Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov and of course Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn…
I don’t think Pasternak was a socialist and he was born in 1890 and seems to have been pretty cranky in conforming to what communist, not socialist leaders wanted. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism, he was raised in the Orthodox Church by his mother, his family’s land was taken and made communal, and he had to hide his father’s wealthy past. Mikhail Sholokhov sort of works, though again, here we are dealing with communism, not socialism, and large scale communism
I suppose if one is arguing that som geniuses might be created by communism if they hate and rebel against it, the other two might be good examples.
Better examples might come from, say, Scandanavia.
Thanks, but if you consider Scandanavia capitalist, with free health care, free education, free dental for kids, an extensive social support system, extremely high taxes rates capitalist,
then most of US liberals you classify as socialists are extreme capitalists by comparison.
Obviously I’m not the most perceptive poster since I’m only now discovering this thread
But I vote Carleas because he’s the most likely to concede points in earnest aspiration for truth and I think his respectful style of interaction with members should be a model for us all.
If we’re talking ferocious, that would be Urwrongx1000… I’m not saying he’s always right, but he would be the most ferocious in defence of his argument.
I will post an update commentary on the current positions thus far… exciting, I know
I’m guessing, that like most things, it may have it’s pros and it’s cons… depending on the circumstance at hand. One-dimensionality probably pigeon-holes, whereas a multi-faceted character has more to play with… probably.