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To: dvdw© who wrote (50390)	5/24/2009 9:01:36 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217561

Missing information is: Leaving aside the Universal State (as explained by Toynbee in his "A Study of History") a "consumption society tendency is to get poorer while the other societies tendency is to become wealthier. This is the first time in man's history where we actually had a consmption societies and which we can witness a decay.

To: dvdw© who wrote (50390)	5/24/2009 9:07:03 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217561

The marginal state can never become a consumption society. China, USSR, Today's Iran. Cuba, N. Korea. The marginal state relies on a 'glue' to agglutinate it. The party, the Church, the father figure... They have a devotion that fulfills their needs. They are also inefficient and cannot produce surpluses. They can do only Stalinist economy: Throw labor and capital at the economy. Steel, Oil and cement. They achieve high rates of economic growth, then they collapse, since it reaches a time, that no matter how much capital and labor you throw at the economy, it no longer grows.