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Ethereum's Great Leap Forward

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Mark Jeftovic

"I personally like hard forks. Particularly, I like the fact that they give users a measure of control, requiring them to opt in to protocol changes. Sure, they can be a little more chaotic if they're controversial, but that's the price of freedom."
— Vitalik Buterin

"Within the ranks of the people, democracy is correlative with centralism and freedom with discipline. They are the two opposites of a single entity, contradictory as well as united, and we should not one-sidedly emphasize one to the denial of the other.

Within the ranks of the people, we cannot do without freedom, nor can we do without discipline; we cannot do without democracy, nor can we do without centralism. This unity of democracy and centralism, of freedom and discipline, constitutes our democratic centralism. Under this system, the people enjoy extensive democracy and freedom, but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist discipline."
— Mao Zedong, 1957

In 1958, Communist China's Mao Zedong undertook a comprehensive program to reorganize his country's agricultural engine into a Communist Utopia by collectivizing the farms. What happened instead was an unmitigated catastrophe that resulted in unprecedented poverty and widespread famine. Estimates range between 15 to 55 million Chinese people died, starving to death in their socialist paradise.


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